Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in my Member's statement today, I talked about the fact that this is NWT Mental Health Week, and I touched on some of the areas that this week is intended to draw attention to. No one likes to talk about addictions, mental illness or depression, but I think it is important that we do have weeks like this that do recognize the prevalence of these things in our communities and in our society because we need to do things to address them.
I mentioned in my statement, Mr. Speaker, that the Department of Health and Social Services did commission a plan in 2004 and that this has been getting rolled out. Some of the areas and challenges they identified was the need to emphasize prevention and promotion programs at the community level, increased accessibility to community mental health and addiction services, increased clinical support and supervision for frontline workers, increased training for frontline staff, and increased access to mental health and addiction services after hours. The commitment in that was to employ 77 new mental health and addiction workers throughout the NWT over a three-year period. I would like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services, what is the status of this undertaking? How is the implementation of this piece related to addictions and mental health rolling out? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.