Mr. Speaker, I wasn’t suggesting we should be proud of the fact that we have children in care. I agree with the Member that we want to minimize that number as much as possible.
The fact is that we have made some progress. In 1999, out of all the children in care, most of them were not with their families in the communities.
We have very few children — only about 38 out of 630 children — outside of the NWT, in southern care. They are there because they need services and programs we’re not able to offer in the Territories.