Yes, the codes are much different. In a hospital we have to have different types of air exchanges. For example, I find out that if you have an operating room, you have to exchange air 20 times an hour. So you don’t need to have that type of air exchange in a treatment facility, of course. So, much different.

Would it be the Department of Health and Social Services that would, perhaps, review options for putting this facility into service in some capacity, or would it be the Department of Public Works and Services who acts as a central agency for the different client departments? Would it be the work of PWS to begin to do this assessment or would it be the work of Health and Social Services?

I understand that in order to continue to use a facility that may have reached the end of its life, we would have to coordinate that with a technical department like Public Works and Services so that if there are upgrades necessary, we need to determine the costs of continuing to use the facility regardless of what it would be used for. We would have to do some sort of technical evaluation to determine whether or not we would be better off just to build something new.

If I were the Minister of Health and Social Services and I were managing a department in the Northwest Territories that did not have a single youth treatment for drug and alcohol addiction bed available, I would be all over the Hay River hospital idea. I would like to ask the Minister if he would commit today to at least examine that possibility of re-profiling what will be the former Hay River hospital in three years’ time as a youth treatment centre.

I think the most youth we send out for treatment in one fiscal year would be five. Youth treatment is an interesting thing because most youth treatment isn’t voluntary, it would be youth treatment that’s forced upon the youth to go for treatment. Very few youth at their age would admit that they have an addiction issue or would need some treatment. They don’t recognize that until much later in life. Most youth that are treated are actually forced to go to treatment. We do that approximately, like I said, to a maximum of about five per year. We really have to determine the value of money for this type of situation.

There is some cost to treating youth in the South, we recognize that; a very high cost. We know that because we go for supps when we do the youth treatment money. I would say that we would look at something, possibly, but the likelihood of us having a full facility to treat that few people, we probably would not do it. We may set up a program that can go into another facility.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Final supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to get a few parents in the Northwest Territories who are struggling with teenagers that are involved with drugs and alcohol and I’d like them to weigh in on the subject. That we only have five youth in the Northwest Territories every year that volunteer to go for treatment? I know we can’t force them, but there is, if you just look at our statistics, we have got to recognize as a government that there is a need to make something available. Maybe if there was something available, maybe they would come. Maybe there would be interventions by families that say, look, we need to address these situations. If the government does not see the way clear, could we put out some kind

of a call to a non-government organization that is involved in this type of work that might like to see the need in the Northwest Territories and participate in meeting that need by looking again at such a valuable piece of infrastructure, in my opinion?

I think part of our business is to try to… We are looking at having an actual youth treatment program. An example of something we looked at was having a summer program in, say, Nats’ejee K’eh. If that was the facility we chose to continue to fund, then maybe having one program per year where we would treat youth.

Youth – I think I was not clear – are usually court ordered or forced to go to treatment by their parents. There are very, very few that ever volunteer. That’s anywhere in the country. There are very few youth that actually volunteer to go to treatment.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Item 8, written questions. The honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment provide the following information on how the $1.8 million allocated for the Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative is being distributed?

1. How the funding is distributed to the regions;

2. A breakdown of funding being distributed to

each of the 33 NWT communities;

3. Funding actually allocated to the Aboriginal

Student Achievement committee initiatives; and

4. Funding being spent by the department on their

own campaign on the Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. The honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, Mr. Robert McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery.

---Unanimous consent granted.

Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, Mr. Robert McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize a good constituent of Inuvik Twin Lakes, Mr. Willard Hagen.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The honourable Member for Thebacha, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank my colleague for going back to this number. As well, I’d like to recognize, actually, Mr. Willard Hagen, chair of the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, as well as Richard Edjericon, chair of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board. Thank you for coming and spending time in the Assembly.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The honourable Member for Weledeh, Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d also like to recognize Mr. Richard Edjericon, a resident of Weledeh.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Item 9, returns to written questions. Item 10, replies to opening address. Item 11, petitions. Item 12, reports of standing and special committees. Item 13, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 14, tabling of documents. The honourable Minister responsible for Justice, Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document, entitled Additional Information for GNWT Response to Committee Report 1-17(3) to Review the NWT Information and Privacy Commissioner’s 2010-2011 Annual Report.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Item 15, notices of motion. Item 16, notices of motion for first reading of bills. Item 17, motions. Item 18, first reading of bills. Item 19, second reading of bills. Item 20, consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters: Tabled Document 64-17(3), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2013-2014; Bill 2, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2012; and Bill 8, An Act to Amend the Securities Act, with Mrs. Groenewegen in the chair.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. What’s the wish of the committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The committee would like to consider Tabled Document 64-17(3), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2013-2014.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Is committee agreed?