Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I, too, am going to support the motion that is in front of us today. I guess this time I hope somebody is paying attention to the motion. Obviously, the motion that was passed by this House back in October 2004 fell on deaf ears, as I mentioned. This one is just reiterating our belief that something else has to be done. I have heard a number of my colleagues talk about the Chalmers Report and the fact of staying the course, but, Mr. Speaker, I would suggest that if we stay the course that we are on, we will end up in the ditch. I believe that. I think our residents are demanding that we take action, that we do something.
I spoke today in my Member's statement and in my questions about the possibility of reprofiling some of our existing facilities perhaps to better utilize them so that we can tackle addiction problems. I know, having grown up here in Yellowknife, we had the Northern Addictions Services here until 1999. I was quite a bit younger at the time. I think the circumstances surrounding the closure of the Northern Addictions Services centred around not a lack of clients for the service, but a lack of money and a lack of management or whatever that happened there. There are other reasons aside from clientele that that facility shut down. That is what I am hearing from people. We need to have something like Northern Addictions Services reopened here in Yellowknife. We have to do more with what we have, Mr. Speaker.
I think this motion speaks to that somewhat. The Minister hopefully is paying attention, but it doesn't look like it. Members of this House take motions that we present to the government quite seriously. We don't like to just have lip service. The government goes off and contracts out reports that come back. We want a chance to debate findings of that report. We want a chance to stand up for our constituents, for the people who put us here, who we represent and tell them that we want residential treatment programs in some of our communities.
Again, Mr. Speaker, maybe the Minister can read Hansard to hear or read what I have said. Again, thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do support the motion. Thank you.