Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, all four of the treatment centres that we visited operated on the 12-step model, and as you may know, peer support is critical to the success of the 12-step program.
What I have heard since I came back is that, in even the regional centres, let alone the small communities, people are reluctant to create AA groups, which would be the natural follow-up, because of privacy concerns, which I stated earlier. There really isn't a level of anonymity in a place that has 1,000 people, and not everyone is comfortable sharing the details of their addiction and recovery in that format.
That means that aftercare, as my colleague from Nahendeh said, really needs to take place on an individual basis. How this would work within privacy concerns, I am not sure, but it may be possible to link people who have been in recovery to one another so that they can provide peer support one-on-one. That was one thought I had.
Otherwise, as my colleague said, really, it is individual. The centres offer online support. They offer telephone support. If you are in the place where the treatment facility is located, you can drop in and talk to them. Other than that, the peer support piece, it is not really clear that it would be easy to get that going. It is not really a matter of money and resources. It is a matter of privacy, which is a more difficult issue to address.
Having said that, of course, that is not the only way to support people in their sobriety, and I will leave the Minister to fill in the blanks. Thank you.