Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member as well as other Members have actually asked this question before. Following up from those requests for information and the desire to have more traditional foods in our facilities, which we agree is an incredibly important thing to do, our traditional foods help to promote healing, healthy eating and all those types of things. So the Department of Health and Social Services is currently doing some research and developing an action plan to improve the availability of traditional foods within our facilities.

The Traditional Foods and Facilities Action Plan and Recommendations Report, we’re hoping to

have that completed in January 2015 so that we can bring it to the Standing Committee on Social Programs for discussion.

The types of things that we want to see, or that you will see in that report, are some successes and lessons learned in other jurisdictions such as Alaska, Whitehorse and as well as Alberta. We’re also looking at new specifications regarding traditional food use, access to traditional food and costs of traditional foods and the use of federally inspected traditional foods. So there are lots of different options we’re exploring and current policies that some facilities already have. We’re hoping to bring all that information together in January and sharing it with committee so that we can move forward to find ways to provide more traditional food within our facilities throughout the Northwest Territories.