Yes, thank you, Madam Speaker. Yes, I will support this motion as well. Coming from small communities, and especially with fly-in communities, there's not much happening in those small communities but I know that many of those communities, especially in the small communities, they are doing their best. People are doing their best, trying to meet the needs of the young people or to work with the young people. But we lack a lot of programs and services. We lack a lot of resources in small communities that will help and work with the young people. Because even in my region, we have issues. You know, we have issues within two months -- within two months, we lost four young people, you know, with so many dreams and so many goals. And I do feel, my condolences is going out to -- well, my condolences is going out to the families, but there's young people left behind. There's parents that are left behind. Grandparents. And especially if there's kids involved, there's kids as young as two years old, as young as less than a year old that we're talking about. So it does affect everybody within -- it's not just the family members that it affects. It affects everybody in the community, just like what my colleagues said with the suicide. So yes, we are feeling what is happening in my communities. There's lots of issues and there's a lot of healing that needs to be done in small communities. And all this is related to drugs and alcohol. And how many of those suicide was related to drugs and alcohol? So that's the thing that we have to work with. And I'm very grateful to Tlicho government for doing their best. So what they're doing now is through their healing path they're promoting, they're working with their members, because it's -- this is not just about now. It's for future generations as well because when we're at a meeting, we hear elders talking saying that young people are our future generations. They are our future leaders. So they keep saying that so we need to build on that and do something about it. If we are going to produce and if we're going to have these young people be our future leaders, then we need to start doing something about it. We need to take some actions and fight back against drugs and alcohol and, you know, work with our young people to heal.
Not only that, we have a lot of issues -- where I said we have a lot of issues, we have parents, grandparents, that are really frustrated. Some of the grandparents are expressing their frustration on social media. I see it on social media where they are frustrated with what's happening with their kids and while their grand kids are being neglected. And there are some parents that are expressing their frustration where their daughters -- especially when -- if it's a daughter, they're frustrated with the daughter that is abusing drugs and alcohol. And some of these young people are still -- even though they are aware the impact of FASD, yet still some are still abusing. So that will be -- we're not helping young people in that area. I feel like we're not helping young people in that area. Even though there was an education on it in the past but yet young people are still abusing while young mothers, you know, are pregnant. And so I hear from the parents and grandparents expressing frustration on that.
So with that in mind, Madam Speaker, that I will support this motion because I know it will help in the small communities, especially within the fly-in communities there's not much to do over there. And what we're doing, this prevention, it will help a lot of those people in the small communities. So that's why I do support this motion. Thank you.