Mahsi cho, Madam Chair. This one here is very near and dear to me, addiction issues and aftercare. It was a big part of my platform, and I spoke to a lot of people about this. For me, I mentioned before when we did our roundtable, I have been sober for a long time now. I struggled with alcohol for many years, and I am glad to say now, it is been over seven years. You try to lead by example, and that is what I am doing, but there has to be more than that. You talk to a lot of people who are in pain right now. They are suffering, and you just feel powerless when you go through your campaign. Now we are here. We can do something about this. I am glad we actually put this in.
Again, this is a good item to have on our mandate, but the hows are always the tough parts, how to get there. One of the things that I have looked at was it shouldn't be just the GNWT imposing their will; like, "Here. We are going to have this great, big, bright palace. You are going to go to this and get healed." For me, we should always engage with the communities. I think it is one of those items where the GNWT will fund our communities, our Indigenous governments. Our land is vast. Our cultures are so different between north and south, east and west, and we deal with our sick people differently. Our communities know our people the best, and we know how to best help them.
I look at on-the-land programs, so I guess my question is: would the Premier be willing to go that route, just to fund our communities directly and let them handle their on-the-land programs? Would that be something that the Premier would be interested in looking at? Mahsi cho, Madam Chair.