Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this week in the NWT is Family Violence Awareness Week. This means we should be focused on creating awareness in each of our communities. Our attention should be towards putting an end towards family violence.
Mr. Speaker, we need to recognize that our communities are working endless hours to create awareness on family violence, and it is everyone's responsibility to support our organizations who are promoting activities to end this violence.
I know I don't stand alone, Mr. Speaker, when I say we are supporting programs to raise awareness about family violence. Activities are held in many of our communities to support families who are going through violence in any way, shape, or form.
Activities are focused on prevention and awareness. The more we talk about it and the more education we give, we could be saving lives. Let's get this awareness out, and put an end to family violence. We need everyone's support.
Mr. Speaker, our efforts about putting an end to family violence mean we need to start talking about it and making people realize that this will not be tolerated anymore.
Talking about standing up for yourselves and not being afraid, let's start by encouraging culture and traditional events, which includes family members taking part and seeing how much fun it is to do activities together.
Mr. Speaker, it is important that our families and our communities know that we support and encourage activities that will make our families stronger. Mr. Speaker, whether we admit it or not, we are all impacted by family violence. This means that it is our responsibility to help raise awareness and promote and educate our communities so that family violence will be an open discussion and families who are affected will not be afraid to come forward and take a stand. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.