We do do that. As I indicated, when the Minister’s Forum on Mental Health and Addictions went out, we heard a number of things: made-in-the-North solutions, on-the-land programming, community counselling, all sorts of different options. People wanted a variety and a range of programs. Facility-based treatment is only one of those options.

We

provide

money

to

different

Aboriginal

governments

and

organizations

around

the

Northwest Territories to have custom made, regionally specific, culturally appropriate made-in- the-North programs for our residents and those programs are seeing some positive results. We also have community counselling positions and many NGOs who are doing incredible work across the

Northwest Territories with a real focus on the North. We also have programs like the Matrix, which are community-based treatment programs with no facility that are being delivered around the Northwest

Territories

by

Northerners

for

Northerners.

We have responded to the Minister’s Forum on Mental Health and Addictions, which was very clear, a wide range of programs, options that are available and we have moved down that road.

I still think the facility, the Nats’ejee K’eh facility, has a great opportunity to provide some service, whether it’s a wellness centre, whether it’s a training centre, whether it’s a spiritual centre of some capacity, something that is going to benefit all people of the Northwest Territories, and we’re open to having those discussions with KFN. We just don’t feel that, at this point, re-establishing it as a treatment facility that has failed over and over again is going to provide any benefit to the people of the Northwest Territories. Thank you.