Mr. Chairman, one of the areas I wanted to touch on is when we talk about health and social statistics for the Northwest Territories -- and this is a fairly broad and general question, but hopefully the Minister can help us out with it - whenever we hear the statistics quoted, everything from alcohol consumed to rates of FAS to teenage pregnancy to STDs, all these statistics, suicides, the Northwest Territories seems to be near the top end on the statistics side on just about everything. Yet in reality, when you look around it seems like there's progress that has been made. As a government, we spend so many millions of dollars trying to address these issues that I guess as an elected person, I find it frustrating and sometimes kind of depressing that we really don't have any good news to hang our hat on that we can go out there and say here is a real result, here is improvement, here is movement in a certain area.

So as to how we quantify if we are being successful or if we are making an impact with all of the resources and energy that we bring to bear on some of these issues, what I would like to ask the Minister to elaborate on a little bit is could we be doing a better job of quantifying our progress, gauging our outcomes on some of the programs and services that we provide in terms of the results? Again, I just never cease to be overwhelmed by how we rank nationally when it comes to many of these social and health indicators. It would be good to have some good news once in awhile. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.