Mr. Speaker, there are a number of things that we are doing to help individuals who are suffering from addictions here in the Northwest Territories. We have put in $1.2 million into addictions programming, which is a direct result of the Minister's forum in the last government.
As we discussed yesterday in Committee of the Whole, we are actually in the process of developing a comprehensive evaluation framework working with our partners so that we can have some long-term assessment on these programs to see how effective they are over time. I did commit to providing the Members with the immediate detail, how many people have attended, the general feedback they have provided us, those types of things. That will help us determine the effectiveness of these programs moving forward.
We also have contracts with four treatment facilities in the south, and we have actually included and put in an expedited referral process. What we have seen in the last year and a half is actually a rise in the number of individuals who were choosing to utilize those facilities. For years in the Northwest Territories, we had a fairly static number. There was 12 people in treatment at any given time. We're starting to see that rise as a result of the expedited referral process. I certainly can provide those details to the Member, and we do have some evaluation frameworks in place to try to monitor those in the long term. So there are a number of things we are doing to track the results of the good work that was done in the previous Assembly.