Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It doesn’t seem to be working, the system. That’s exactly what I thought, too, with the movement in the capital. I thought things would actually arrive in time. I’ve actually witnessed a project in another region where it was delayed almost two years because the government couldn’t get the winter road thing organized and couldn’t get the materials into that community. We skidooed into that community one year and this project was already a year behind and it ended up...I think that place actually got opened this year, and we’re two years into this term and that thing started before I was an MLA. So I think that the government actually can’t just say they have a strategy on how they’re going to do winter road and barging, they actually have to have one, and I don’t think they do.

Things that are clearly missing from Tu Nedhe that I’ve been asking about and that don’t appear in the capital plan, as I see it, is a little bit of work on the great elders facility in Fort Resolution where the people want to keep elders in the community, especially elders that are passing away and they’re being shipped out of the community and they’re being held in other facilities in their last days. One of the things I asked for, they said well there’s no nursing available to do that. That’s a separate topic. The other topic was that it would be very expensive to get the building ready, which I don’t agree with, but at the same time there’s no plan whatsoever to do anything in that building.

I think that there’s enough being said here about the youth and how if we’re going to cure the social ills of our society up here, we need to start by making sure that we have productive youth. I don’t think there’s enough attention paid to that at this point. I’m not talking about doubling programs or putting more money into programs, I’m talking about putting capital into the communities to build centres for the youth, somewhere for the youth to go, something for the youth to do. I’d like to see some sort of things in the capital plan for all the communities that don’t have youth centres. You know, put youth centres in and address the issue.

I think that right now what’s happening in these communities is we’re not producing productive kids and not a high enough percentage of productive citizens, because we’re not addressing issues of the youth in the community because we’re not paying attention to them. I mean, that is an issue. I really don’t know how else to make this government understand that if we address the issue and we help the youth, then at the end of the day we’re going to have huge savings in this government. Even the social envelope will shrink, there’s no question about, it if we start producing citizens out of the community that are productive. I believe that that has long-term benefits by putting a little bit of money in here instead of putting it elsewhere. I mean, the government seems more concerned about making sure that the computers are properly housed in Yellowknife than they are concerned about housing youth in the small communities. I’ve, unfortunately, run out of time here, Mr. Chairman.