Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are not planning on updating the Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan. The Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan is something that is taking us from now to the end of this government. There is no time to update it. Within that action plan, we called for a Minister’s forum and visit with the people to get information from the people on what they think will work in this area. That’s what we’ve done. Thank you.

To the Minister, thanks to the response, but he didn’t really address my question with regards to the recommendations that are in the Minister’s Forum report. There are 67 recommendations in there. What is the Minister doing to put those recommendations into some kind of an action or to take some action on those recommendations? Thank you.

The department in general, we have an Aboriginal community wellness division; we have money that’s being put into addictions from the House. We’ve got some additional funding to address some of the issues that we laid out in one of the two, either the action plan or the recommendations from the forum. We’re moving ahead in areas that we have been talking about for the last several months since we’ve got the forum’s recommendation. We intend to carry them out. I think we’re moving in that direction. It’s a difficult thing to answer what are you doing to carry out. We’re following the plan. Wherever we find the money, we are trying to action things that were recommended by the Minister’s Forum. Thank you.

To the Minister, I guess I’m feeling very puzzled. I’m sure my face looks puzzled. I don’t think that this is a difficult thing to tell us exactly what you are doing. There are 67 recommendations in this report. The Minister says they’re following the plan. Well, I want to know how you’re following the plan. There is any number of things in there that could be done sooner than other things in there.

Can the Minister give me some indication of two or three things they are trying to do first before they do the other 63 or 64?

The first set of recommendations, the most prominent set of recommendations were around treatment on the

land. So we are developing a treatment on-the-land program with the communities. We are receiving recommendations from those communities. We are proposing to run some of those recommendations or proposals as pilot programs. We are trying to develop a youth treatment program. Like I said, there’s a consultation process in Fort Simpson where we’re trying to develop an on-the-land youth program. We’re looking to other jurisdictions to see what they’re doing with mobile treatment, I think. Those are the top three recommendations, so we’re moving on those things. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Final, short supplementary, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That certainly helps. I thank the Minister for that explanation, but it sounds as though we’re starting with recommendation number one and working our way down to number 67. That’s a concern for me. Number 67 says, “Establish an advisory board with regional representation to oversee the implementation of the forum’s recommendations…provide annual reports,” et cetera. So can the Minister tell me if this advisory board is something that is on the radar within the next short time period, or is it going to be one we’ve done from number one to 66 and then we do 67? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Member for Yellowknife Centre, Mr. Hawkins.