Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, will be supporting the motion. I’d like to thank the Member for the Sahtu for bringing this forward.
Mr. Speaker, it is a well-known fact we have a huge problem with alcohol abuse in the Northwest Territories. Anything we can do to prevent that, to treat that, is something that I will support.
To the clause in the motion that speaks of the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce and to the beer cans over Mr. Hawkins’ fence, I can’t really exactly understand how that correlates to an on-the-land drug and alcohol abuse program, but that’s okay. I’m going to try and speak to the motion and not stand up here and respond to what Mr. Hawkins said.
Mr. Speaker, an on-the-land program is beneficial because it’s something that people of the North, a lot of them can relate to. I’m not a person who’s spent a lot of time on the land, but a lot of people in the North can relate to that serenity, to that quietness, to that ability to reflect on their life and the choices that they are making and what they need to make. So I think it is a great idea. A mobile treatment facility to treat people on the land is something succinctly that I think this government should spend money on, and I think that we have few larger challenges ahead of us than ensuring that facilities are in place to treat people in the Northwest Territories who have substance abuse problems. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.