Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my colleague is prone of late it seems to political hyperbole and sweeping generalizations where he has now quite routinely denigrated and devalued the work of the hundreds of people that work in the addictions field, and in the communities, and on the planning that's been done over the last years that laid out a Mental Health and Addictions Strategy, that sees us working with Education and MACA with youth initiatives and in the schools with Get Active campaigns, training northerners. So we have done a lot of work since 2002. We have an action plan that has laid out 40-some recommendations that have been acted on and are critical to the development of the health and social services system.

Addictions has had its own plan. We've laid out clearly our investments, the strategy, the direction based on significant feedback across the North, based on the State of Emergency document back in 2001. We've added 77 positions; we've trained northerners; we've taken the alcohol and drug program that was clearly identified as sitting in the shadows and not being properly attended to and made it an integral part of how we do business in the Northwest Territories. So I think the Member is inaccurate in his characterization of what's been done here, unfair to the people doing the work and I'd be happy to have the discussion and I'm very happy to stand here and defend and hold up, for clear scrutiny, the work that has been done because I think what we've done with the resources is we have done a good job. Thank you