Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, as a government we can tally up all the areas that we fund to deal with the impacts of drug and alcohol. It is, as the Member puts it, a crying shame that we have to spend as much money as we do to deal with the impacts of something like drugs and alcohol. It is a problem in the Northwest Territories. We do spend a lot of money. Just look at the fact that if we have to deal with just one child that has FASD, it's a cost to the government throughout the life of that child that's 100 percent preventable. We do, as I was stating earlier, take the money we have and put it into programs and services. As a government, we have to look at how we deal with the prevention side of alcohol abuse and how we do that. That's something we are going to have to cope with overall as a government. The money we do have, in the area of $36 million, comes back into the general revenues and we use that to offset the programs and services we already deliver. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 67-15(4): Using Liquor Revenues For Regional Drug And Alcohol Programs
In the Legislative Assembly on May 31st, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 67-15(4): Using Liquor Revenues For Regional Drug And Alcohol Programs
Question 67-15(4): Using Liquor Revenues For Regional Drug And Alcohol Programs
Revert To Item 6: Oral Questions
May 30th, 2005
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