Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So we know the fact that we are making not bad money off our sales of buying liquor and the costs, and maybe stabilizing the costs here in the North. I guess my question is to the Minister. The main estimates are for the $25.372 million profit. I heard it before that the money goes into general revenues and they give it up. I know we passed a motion one time at least, to put a symbolic gesture to put at least a percentage to direct program services into alcohol prevention promotion programs in our communities. I am not too sure; the response wasn’t favourable from the Minister. Just a symbolic gesture because I know we put the $25 million we make off of selling booze to the people of the Northwest Territories, then as a direct symbolic gesture saying that it is important to us to save lives and we want to do this, even 1 percent of this money. I was looking at 10 percent, and so I still think that is the way to go in saying yes, this money can go directly into alcohol and drug prevention programs in our communities.

Also, I would like to get a breakdown of what the sales are like in Norman Wells liquor store. We make a profit. On a business deal, this is a good deal. I don’t know what the bootleggers make, but this is a good deal here for us as a legitimate government business. Making profits and the money goes into general revenue, and I understand, Mr. Miltenberger, last time you told me about all that goes into programs, but this is now directly hitting the pocketbooks. Bring it back into our communities on a percentage. That is what I would like to look at in this Liquor Revolving Fund.

We heard a lot of comments from the Sahtu communities on Bill 24. A lot of good, strong recommendations from the Members, which we know the $48 million that caused a lot of headaches in the North and what the sales are going to the Sahtu, but it has caused a lot of headaches and we would certainly like to combat that as much as we can. The operations of our liquor store have been questioned too. Some of our Members here, and for me, I just want to say this stuff is taken by some people which they can handle pretty good. A lot of our people you see in the reports, the crime reports, RCMP reports, are pretty high. They are unable yet to handle it and it causes a lot of headaches for us as a government.

So, I guess my last question before I leave this page, has there ever been a study about what alcohol costs our business and our community? We do that with tobacco, we do that with cancer, we do that with diabetes, but has there been any type of study within this government to say this is what it costs the community or a business, missing work, getting sick, everything, showing that. I know they did that in the Alberta government, and it cost the government, if you look at some of the factors in the trillions of dollars. Have we ever done anything like that in the Northwest Territories, to really see the

devastating impact on the socio-economic and health level of understanding the real cost of all of this?

You know, we need to take a break, so I’m not interested in opening the bars and liquor stores on Sunday. Enough is enough. Modernize or not, we have to put our foot down to say this stuff is costing us dearly in our communities, so I hope the Minister doesn’t come and have the discussion with us in committee on looking at bars on Sunday. Let’s have a day of rest, okay? Thank you.