Thank you, Madam Chair. I feel very strongly about this particular deficiency and want to speak to it. In the files that the Auditor General examined, none of them had done a long-term risk assessment of the child’s safety. It struck me as being particularly deficient, for lack of a better word. I understand the Minister’s comment that the department is looking at something and that it’s going to take a long time in order to get a tool in place, but there has to be something in the interim. We can’t continue the way we have for umpteen years, not doing long-term assessments of the safety of children when they are apprehended or even when there’s an intervention being done of some sort whether they remain in the home or not.

I can understand that to take a tool and adapt it for our particular northern situation may take a while, but in the interim, the Minister has to ensure that long-term assessments are being done and there needs to be an interim tool. During the hearings, we were advised that it could take up to a year for the department to get tools in place, and that’s way too long. So I wanted to just state that it is up to the Minister to find something that will ensure that workers are doing long-term assessments of children until we get this risk assessment tool formally identified. Thank you.