Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I had assumed that this had already started. Mr. Speaker, I will check with the department. If they haven't already begun to work one on one with clients, then I would ask that they start right now. There isn't any reason to be delaying, Mr. Speaker. It's our goal, as the Housing Corporation, to fulfill that prophecy of having clients who feel that they are being treated well, are living in good housing, people who are healthy and happy and can afford what we provide them. So, Mr. Speaker, we want to achieve that and I hope the Housing Corporation is already talking with people. Thank you, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services again in terms of this position. For me, it's a serious issue. You have a lot of people come into the hospital, a lot of people who come in and sit down. Nobody comes to see them and they sit there a long time. I have been in that position. I have seen people. I am asking for someone to be in there and have workers already there who can have an office in the front. I know they have the aboriginal language coordinator and they do really good work. Let me tell you, they are doing some really good work there. They have those people there. I am asking to put an office or do some creative thinking. I am not sure what it will cost in extra dollars to have somebody there who would at least come and see people. These are people who go to the hospital for good reasons. This is not Wal-Mart. I am saying they go there for good reasons and we should pay some homage and respect for greeting all kinds of people. So I am asking the Minister, would he look at this issue here?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would be happy to sit down with the Member and have more of a discussion with the Social Programs committee. The issue is, and he touched on it a bit, the fact that we've just passed the budget for 2007-08 and as also raised in this House of the concerns around funding for the Stanton facility itself. It is going to be challenging to expand the services beyond what they are, but I am prepared to sit down with the Social Programs committee on this issue. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I certainly welcome the Minister to sit down with the Social Programs committee. Can he do some prep work and look at his department and see where he can find some of the resources in terms of how this can get done, how it can be

laid out in terms of having his meeting with the Social Programs committee members?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, again, it's very difficult to see where we can find from within. Again, I am prepared to sit down with committee to go through what may be there. Ultimately, it may be an exercise where we put it on a request of forced growth or new initiatives in anther budgeting planning session. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The honourable Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member, last fall, brought up the issue about the need for this government to be involved in making sure that services to people who had suffered the abuse at residential schools were coordinated and that we needed to coordinate not only within our own government, but with outside agencies. Earlier this year, in January, we coordinated a meeting of not only GNWT departments but outside agencies including the RCMP, churches, survivor groups and the federal government, to make sure that everybody knew what the program would be. We are trying to make sure that everybody, whether they are in the smallest community or largest community, knows how to access the services that they might need, knows how to contact Indian residential schools resolution to get one of the benefits. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In his discussions with the other departments, would the Minister considering bringing an issue to his counterparts in terms of dealing with the residential schools and determine if there is a need for a residential school unit in the Government of the Northwest Territories? I know there are different departments that have different input in terms of this issue, but there is really no one number that they can call, unless I am mistaken. I might be wrong. Survivors might be able to call a number in the Northwest Territories for treatment programs or help with Ottawa's Indian residential school program. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The process has just been given a final approval through the judicial system. I expect that in the next little while, there will be one number available that Canadian residents will be able to call to access service. If that doesn't happen, we will work through the interagency committee that we set up to see if we can find a way to ensure that there is an easy contact for people in the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you. Would the Minister look at the possibility of setting up a residential school unit in the Government of the Northwest Territories that would be called the GNWT residential school unit where survivors can call? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We want to be careful that we aren't stepping into an area where the federal government has fiscal responsibility. This government has a responsibility for providing services for all of our residents, but if we set up a special unit to deal with this, we are stepping into an area that the federal government should be taking on. We want to make sure that everybody who has a role to play in the Northwest Territories knows how to help somebody access service. That's our first goal. If we can find a way to work with the federal government that they would be willing to fund this sort of operation, we would be more than happy to have this kind of thing set up. I will ensure that that is discussed at the next interagency meeting.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Final supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will certainly support the Minister in terms of how he would work with the federal government in terms of how he would fund these types of positions. I would also ask the Minister if he would work with some of the aboriginal organizations that are taking on this initiative, and seeing how governments can work with the Government of the Northwest Territories in funding these types of programs in the North; that they pay for them, not us. Thank you.