Yes, Mr. Chairman. I'm very familiar with the Minister's confidence, and I share with him the confidence of a large majority of the people who are

needed, and trained and committed to the care of children. But the exception, as the Minister pointed out, is amongst the more sophisticated, if you will, psychological and medical and clinical services. Yes, the Minister is quite right; it is potentially only a half-hour plane ride from Yellowknife, but there's a lot more involved than sort of transporting people back and forth on airplanes.

So let's park that one there. We're hoping and I'm entirely supportive of trying to achieve some repatriation, Madam Chair, and anticipating that we are going to be undertaking more of the cost in order to do this. I look at information that the department supplied in response to a question from me in October of last year, Madam Chair, and the response indicates that for the eight clients or beds that are presently provided for children at the Territorial Treatment Centre, there's a cost assessed here of about $145,000 per year per bed, or per client if all those beds are full. Madam Chair, the letter then indicates that providing specialized services for children that are not available in the NWT, we had 27 clients in care for a cost that amounted to $45,000 per client. So we have $145,000 to deliver a service here with the arrangements as we know it under the TTC, and $45,000 in the South. That is a major, major difference in cost. I'm wondering if the department can give some sort of reconciliation of how the economies of scale are going to shift. I don't want to assume here that I'm an advocate of keeping all these kids in the South, not at all. But there is a $100,000 difference per client of the service between the South and the North. Are we going to be able to reduce that? How much? When, Madam Chair?