I wouldn’t want to argue with the Minister on that particular point because I agree with him that income support is there to provide for basic needs and certainly food and shelter are a basic need. However, I would like to think that safety and security certainly could be provided in that. Where I’m going with that is if you were on income support, of course, you’re in of those positions, as we discussed earlier, sort of, that poverty cycle, that motion that we had passed earlier. So people have to make choices between food or clothing or support for their kids versus safety. So in other words, what if you need the phone to call an ambulance? What about a job? You know, trying to get those things, I mean, it’s yet one more element of tearing down a person’s ability to climb out of the poverty cycle.
Mr. Chairman, I’m going to ask the Minister, would they take that suggestion back to the department and perhaps evaluate it. I mean, most phones don’t cost a lot of money. If the territorial government agrees through income support if we only provide basic service for phones it may not sound sensitive enough, but maybe it means we have to strap the phone, which is, you know, those are part of the agreements that people can’t make long distance calls to ensure that the phones don’t get out of hand and lose control. I feel that even though it’s taking some of the empowerment away from people that I always strive we should have, but it also provides safety and security, which is the next step of where we should be. Would the Minister take that consideration back and evaluate that? Because I think it’s a missing element of our income support program. Thank you.