The Member is correct. As a territory, as a government, as individuals and communities, we haven’t managed to come to grips with the ravages of alcohol addictions. The social indicators are all there, incarceration rates, shelters that are full with crimes that are committed that are tied to alcohol, involve alcohol, and the rate of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Spectrum Disorder, they are all there. It’s a crying shame, as the Member says, at this point in our political evolution that we are still having this discussion and the fact that Northerners have an intense proclivity to do things that are bad for them. In this case, alcohol.

We’re going to continue to make those investments. We are going to continue to, hopefully, work with the Members and communities to find out what we do to get people to make the right choices. The Member and I have had this discussion over the years. Sometimes it seems like almost on a daily basis. At the end of the day, government can do so much, but the final decision is going to be the person who decides to pick up the bottle and take the drink. We can’t be there in all those cases. In fact, in all of those cases, we’re not there when that happens. So how do we beat that challenge? That’s a question that still bedevils this Assembly, and I have been standing here now in my 18th year and I

worked for 20 years before that, 15 of them in Health and Social Services with the same issues before us. It is a challenge for the North. Thank you.