Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is an area that is of great interest to me in the health field; the whole area of treatment and counselling and so on and so forth. Speaking to local health workers, the cost of other health, the cost of people being sick and hospitalized and whatnot, a lot of that is attributed to, I guess, not necessarily all addictions but attributed to alcohol. The health workers seem to think that alcohol is a big, huge contributing factor in small communities for the health of the folks. The communities also seem to have a solution. I’d like to see the department

working with the communities on that solution. The solution that seems to come up most often, whether we were in the Gwich’in or down further south in the small communities, the solution seems to be that the people thought that the local counsellors working with individuals on the land seemed to be the best way to help people heal from alcohol addiction. I believe that. I heard it many times and I also believe that is the case. I’d like to ask the Minister, my first question is: is the department going to do anything to head in the area of on-the-land treatment at the community level for alcohol addictions?