Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, when dealing with individuals, often assumptions are made based on behaviours. There are times, depending on when alcohol was ingested by the mother, when there may be some clearly visible features that are indicative of an individual with FASD which would be a clear indication of what may be at issue with this individual. But the Member is correct that there are assumptions made that the high number of FASD people

are individuals that there may be in the Northwest Territories, but there isn't a lot of testing done.

On the time frame for the partnership to show results, all the jurisdictions have been working on FASD on their own. What we've done is there's been an agreement to coordinate and concentrate the research efforts. That was done through a fairly extensive process that's being put together so that it's located in Vancouver and Edmonton and they are going to continue to work on it and they are going to share their work not only in Canada, but in the States and wherever this work is being done on FASD. I can't give the Member any specific timelines on when they are going to have success in any particular area. It is just ongoing research and work. Thank you.