Thank you. I don't take any issue with having stringent requirements and the need for the government to act on behalf of the children. I'm speaking about the fact that especially in small traditional communities, they're very strong families and people know who they are, too. Maybe even if they're strong families, they don't want to...I mean taking care of other children is part of the culture. I'm just wondering if there's anything more this government can do to identify those families and provide support. I'm not in any way suggesting that we don't enforce those requirements, but there's always room to work better in that regard.
Another one I want to say is that I am aware of the fact that this is an issue that's as sensitive as caribou. All our community leaders are very protective of their children and they may not want to work with...I don't know; there's jurisdiction questions and such. I just want to say, as I said about the caribou issue where a lot of what we do here is intergovernmental matters, not just wildlife but for children too. We have self-governments and we have aboriginal governments and we're a public government, and I think often we spend too much time talking about how to get intergovernmental relations working for the benefit of getting resources on diamonds or the pipeline or whatever. But I don't think our leaders of different governments are talking enough about how we could work together to find the process and to make policies or make decisions for the benefit of our children, and find ways to keep our children in the community wherever possible.
This community that this lady was from, there is no social worker now. Given that we can't even start a Social Work Program at Aurora College because of lack of interest right now, that problem is not going to go away. We have to find a way for the government to see what we can do with that. I would like to just see issues like that be on the agenda of the government's actions on the intergovernmental front, not just the big ticket items of big things that it's nice to talk about, but we try to do the big ticket items so that we can take care of the small and vital issues, too. So I'd like to ask the Minister if he could review his department's work on where we are. Identify where there is no social worker in place or, I don't know what I could ask him to do, but I would hate to see us just accepting as a fact that there are just some communities that are never going to keep their children in need and that we're just going to have a hands-off policy. I'm willing to hear the Minister talk about how we could address this. At minimum, we should have in every community where children are in danger that there's a group of people working together to see what they can do for those children before they're having to be shipped away. Thank you.