Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, on the Family Violence Program the department funds about $2.2 million, and through that we fund shelters in Fort Smith, Hay River and in the Beaufort-Delta region, as well as some of the shelters in Yellowknife. Under the new Strategic Initiative committee funding, we are looking to invest $1.3 million more, and part of that funding speaks to the second phase of the Family Violence Action Program where we are looking to expand the services to small communities where there are no shelters. We want to work on children who witness violence as well as working with women who don’t necessarily want to be in a shelter. But there has to be some family violence issues or supporting the family and women who want to get some help with that.

Also, we have, over the last two years, expanded or implemented a program called Homelessness Territorial Contribution Plan as well as a small community homeless fund and that is directly related at expanding homelessness programs to outside of major centres. Under our program that we have in the department, we don’t have the funds or program to renovate or find a house but we do find little pockets of money, up to about 30 to 40 thousand dollars for communities who want to fix up somewhere just to make it adequate to host either youth or give them lunch or feed them warm food or something like that. But other departments would be responsible for increasing the numbers of housing.