Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to ask a couple of questions with the family violence prevention. Are there any shelters in the North that are serving men? You know, when -- in my former leadership role, there was a lot of men that required that. You know, it's an -- it's not only women that are mentally and physically abused. There's also a lot of men. And men don't come forward as easily as women do. And so in -- I just want to know -- also I also want to see a consideration for that eventually. There should at least be one home or one shelter in the North that should be serving the male population, because it could be very, very, very challenging for men who are in that situation. I've seen a lot of cases that -- of that even in my community.
I was also going to ask is this part of the -- family violence, is it -- I don't know if it's a health and social program that it could be brought into the schools at an early age, because, you know, it's a -- when there's trauma at home, it affects everybody in the whole family, including the children. So I just wonder if -- if we could start considering some of those programs in the elementary and the high schools. That's -- you know, if we catch some of these programs and have counselling for family violence prevention at early stages in life, it might prevent some awful things that happen in the future. Those are the couple -- and I also wanted to comment on, you know, you have under mental health and addictions and On the Land Healing Fund. I just wanted to also mention that it's over $2 million that was undersubscribed, and I want you to know that in my other leadership role that we had sometimes a six week program with a complete team out of -- out of addictions facilities in the south. We chose which facility we were going to go with and brought the entire team up to Fort Smith under this fund a couple times. And we had a six-week program, not 42 days. And it was -- you know, and we have some very successful candidates. Just last week, I met one of the candidates in Walmart and, you know, after years of addiction, this person is clean and sober, and it's overwhelming. And, you know, when it's undersubscribed, people don't realize they can do a lot with this fund. And you could bring the whole team in, and that includes psychologists, an elder, the whole team. There was five to a team. And also -- we also had someone that actually distributed the medication, which is a very important part of the program. And we also had every night kind of an entertainment thing with Salt River, and we invited people from the community to come to speak to them. So this could be -- I don't think people -- it's proposal-driven. Maybe sometimes maybe you could think about it, but not everybody -- well, I've had incredible staff at Salt River but maybe some of the smaller communities don't have that, and if they are assisted in applying for the program I think that it could be a point in the right direction. That's all I have to say, Madam Chair.