Mr. Chairman, we need to look at that. I have committed to look at that. It will take a different way of thinking to be able to re-profile enough money to do it territorial-wide. It is really about closing the gap in the spectrum of services available. We have residential programming. We send people away. We have staff that work in the communities. But I take the Member’s point that we don’t have enough options for communities to tap into to do on-the-land healing programs. We do fund them, but it’s on an ad hoc basis and a project-by-project basis and whether we could get some money from the feds or some other... It is sort of like we look for wherever we could find it, but I believe what the Member is saying is that we have to develop that as a program with base funding and stable funding and program guidelines. It is something that I have committed to look at it and we will look at it in the next cycle. Thank you.
Sandy Lee on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 14th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 13th, 2011
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