Mr. Speaker, in our process of referral to addictions-based treatment facilities, before our residents go there, we have them have a return appointment booked with the counsellor or the referring individual. We cannot make people attend, but that is one of the things that is supposed to happen.

Prior to release from any of the treatment facilities at the successful completion of their program, the facilities have been working with the residents, but also with counsellors in communities to help set up some after-care plans, and a lot of those do depend on things like peer support groups but, also, the counsellors we have in place and other groups like NGOs that I have previously mentioned that may be able to do it. Recovery support plans are individualized, so every one of them is going to be different based on the individual and what the individual is prepared to or not prepared to do.

We do know that there are peer support groups and how valuable -- we heard that during the tour -- how valuable peer support groups are. In that light, we do know that we have some challenges around peer support groups, especially in some of our smaller communities. After our trip, I did talk to the department. I asked the department to begin some research in how we can better support our peer support groups throughout the Northwest Territories. I know that the Yukon, as an example, has some really interesting programming to provide support to peer support groups. So, that work is being done, and I hope to have some discussions with committee on that and how we can better support peer support groups throughout the Northwest Territories.