The point I want to draw to is, New Zealand has very good coroner policies with regard to taking Aboriginal cultures and traditions into their system. I wonder if the Minister has looked at the New Zealand experience to see if that makes any sense in the Northwest Territories. Most of our communities are Aboriginal people. Fifty percent of the population is Aboriginal people. We’re certainly well versed on the people who have this very important role in the communities. That’s all. I’ll make a comment there to the Minister and he can come back later on to this issue here.
My last point is that service to the public. You know a lot of elders have lived in public housing or private housing, mostly private housing, in their communities and one of the issues that we looked at in the Sahtu was having a public service lawyer going to our communities to help write wills for the elders for the housing. They work really well in Fort Good Hope. The lawyer came into Fort Good Hope and sat down with the elders because this becomes an issue with housing, and the estate and stuff like that. I want to show this is a program that is on the
fly or we’re going to request it, but that’s something that I know Housing has told me would be good to have all the elders and older people draw up wills for themselves because a lot of them don’t do it and it becomes a government issue later.