Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I, too, as seconder of this motion, am happy to put it forward again, in particular to reaffirm what we asked for about a year ago. At that time, I believe we had the government's concurrence and support to look at our lack of facilities and the availability to help our people reaching out and wanting treatment. Since then, Mr. Speaker, the government has come out with a report called, Staying the Course. It is not only a report, Mr. Speaker; I now believe it is a statement of an action that the government is doing, and that is staying the course. They are not reaching out. They are not looking at any new initiatives in this whole area of treatment. It is something very basic to all our regions and communities.

We always talk about strengthening our people. The people are our resources and backbone. They are very important to our economy and yet, here we are not providing opportunity for them to reach out because addiction not only affects one person, it affects families and whole communities, Mr. Speaker. We have to have the availability for that person to go out and get the treatment they seek.

I just want to say, at this point, that throughout my life, as well, I have had addiction problems. Through facilities and availability of counselling and resources that were there, and people bending over backwards to help me, and that is what we have to continue to do for our people. We have to bend over backwards and provide the resources and facilities for our people in order that they can provide for us as we are providing for them.

Just with that, I will close, Mr. Speaker. I will, of course, be certainly supporting this motion. I look forward to it passing. I look forward to government having a heart and listening to us and, once again, taking the cotton balls out of their ears and put it in their mouth and listen to what this side has to say. Mahsi cho.

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