Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we're continuing to work and advance the agenda for addictions and mental health, as I've lain out. There was a motion in this House and the intent is to improve the services and we're working on that. The Member indicates that we need two or three or four new facilities and I'm saying that our energy and funds are better spent at the community level. When we can quantify and demonstrate that we will have facilities that will be fully used and we won't need any other southern resources, then I'll be happy to move forward with the project in putting it into the capital plan, but you would have to get in line with other capital projects. But at this point, I can tell the Member that if we built three or four new facilities, they would all be underutilized and we don't have the numbers to quantify the need for that number of capital projects. I want to maintain, Mr. Speaker, if I could just reiterate, the focus, in my opinion, has to continue to be at the community level to get resources on the ground, working with families, with individuals, with other groups in the community to get people to make the right choices and not just build bricks and mortar and facilities to deal with them once they've got an addiction problem. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 521-15(3): Addressing Drug Use In The Nwt
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 521-15(3): Addressing Drug Use In The Nwt
Question 521-15(3): Addressing Drug Use In The Nwt
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 1st, 2005
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