Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think that is my question exactly. We argue for the protection of children that we have to take away from their families, their homes, their home communities and place them with strangers, in institutions or in homes. But it has been proven time and time again that you may, as a state, take the children away from their parents and their homes to protect them from their bad environment. Who protects them from the state? When we have people designated for child protection agencies, who is to decide which children will need protection by the state? Who supervises them? Who tells them, no, you cannot take that child because I think they'll do better at home, or you should take that child because that are in danger there? Who oversees these people's responsibilities? Which cultural values are used when a child is identified in need of protection? Is aboriginal cultural and understanding part of that criteria used to determine the child is in jeopardy or in need of protection? I'm not sure.

When we send those children to the foster homes or wherever the state decides to send them, do they ensure that those children have an understanding of who they are and where they come from? Do we try to teach them their language, their culture, who their parents are, who their brothers and sisters are?

Mr. Chairman, I do believe we do need to have a tracking system. This is not a phenomenon that has occurred just once. This has a long and sordid history. We know the state taking children does not work very well, yet we continue to do so at such an alarmingly high rate in the Northwest Territories that we, as a government, must develop a process, a tracking mechanism so that we know when a child is taken from their family where they're going, who they're with, if they're doing well in school, if they've gone on to higher education or if they've gone on to be more dependent on the state as they get older? What is our success versus failure ratio for these children? Do we even have questions such as that, Mr. Chairman? If not, I think it's time that we start developing a systems to track the children that this state takes on a consistently high level. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.