Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know I have raised it in the House, and I know we have health navigators who know where, if you need an application, you go here; if you need this, you go here; and you phone them and you know that. However, a lot of our elders and a lot of people who are coming into our hospitals from the small communities, Indigenous people, even within Yellowknife facility, that's a scary facility; even for somebody coming out of Inuvik, that's a scary facility. It's a big facility. You can get lost in there. That's more of a comment.
We keep talking about how, in order to bridge this gap between cultural safety and cultural awareness by having Indigenous nurses trained and hired; we talk about it for the teachers. This is not happening. There must be a way that we bridge that gap to have Indigenous nurses as pathfinders in these hospitals, as somewhere where people can feel safe and trust that they will help them. Indigenous people, I have found, even with my time, is that they don't like to ask questions. They don't want to push people. They don't want to bother anybody, and then you wonder why a lot of our people have cancer, and they wait too long and these types of things. Like I said, that's more of a comment.
I want to move down into the family violence prevention. I'm looking here, since 2019-2020, there is $4.020 million, and then, in the 2020-2021, there was $4.174 million; it hasn't really changed much. It's $4.178 in this main estimates. I know we just recently got the intimate violence report. I am just wondering if there is a response within this department, if there's money or there's staffing allocated, in this family violence prevention, or if it's mixed between different departments. I guess it's up to the Minister to explain that, to address this issue within the territory. We know it's one of the highest in Canada, in the Northwest Territories, of family violence, and these are the ones that are reported. There are many that go unreported. I'm just wondering, in this budget, how are they planning on addressing that? Thank you, Mr. Chair.