Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, there are a multitude of reasons that a family might find themselves in difficulty, where they either need to enter into a voluntary service agreement or, in worst case scenario, there are abuse issues and the child needs to be apprehended. In many cases, it may be as a result of struggles the parents are having around addiction issues or other issues. Often we find, but don't have a correlation, that often people are in situations of neglect or abuse. Many of them are faced with poverty. It is an issue that we obviously try to address here in the Government of the Northwest Territories with things like income support.

I think one of the important things to recognize with Building Stronger Families, what we are trying to do is provide support to families when they are having difficulties. We recently opened a pilot up in Behchoko where, if a family is in a public housing unit and they are having difficulty paying their rent, traditionally they probably would have been evicted, which means they would have probably been in a situation of child apprehension or family services would have had to engage. We are working with those families now, and in some cases helping them with their rent, to avoid having a situation where they have to move out and then we would be in a situation where a voluntary separation or apprehension might be necessary. We are trying to address the poverty issue to some degree, but certainly poverty is far broader than child and family services. Thank you, Mr. Chair.