Mr. Chair, the Member and I have had numerous discussions about the ravages of alcohol and its destructive force across the entire fabric of the Northwest
Territories and how he and I, growing old together, still talk about how do we bend the curve on this in a positive way.
I can make the commitment that we will work with, of course, the social program Minister, Social Programs members’ committee, the Liquor Commission, when it comes to the issue of alcohol and education and what we can or should be doing that we’re not now doing, that we would, of course, do our part as part of that process. If there are things out there that we haven’t thought of, there are innovative approaches being done in other jurisdictions, we as a government of course want to look at those because this is one of the single…this is, in my mind, the biggest social problem that we do have in the Northwest Territories. Thank you.