Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Honourable Floyd Roland, Minister of Health and Social Services. Mr. Speaker, it was almost 18 years ago that I was involved as a part of a lobby along with the Hay River Reserve and many others who felt it necessary that we have a residential treatment program for drug and alcohol addictions in the Northwest Territories. You can imagine how pleased we were when this government decided to invest the money in capital and to build a treatment centre on the Hay River Reserve. That facility has been operating for the last 13 years, but, as you can see by the presence of the employees here in the gallery today, they aren't at work because they have been locked out of their workplace and the valuable work that they do there.
The workers and the treatment centre helps residents from right across the Northwest Territories and there are many success stories to be told. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister what he can do in this regard. I know there has been correspondence that has gone to employer and to the union. The Minister has said that he hopes they can get back to the table. Is that the extent of what we can do, and what influence we have as a government on this situation? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.