Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too support a hundred percent here on the three previous speakers, on the emphasis. And I can't stress enough the need to focus on today's society. Today's society is plagued with a lack of work, lack of industry. It's really designed to plague on the weak ones and the weak ones are vulnerable and in comes these opportunists with their drugs. And to me, it's really shocking. I have never seen my home community in Fort Good Hope so torn apart by the influx of drugs. And now we're getting phone calls, as the Member from Boot Lake said, as late as 9, 10 o'clock at night. I think if we all witnessed that, we would understand the need for capital to address the society today.

To give you an example, another example of many, we invited the Ministers of Infrastructure and Finance to the Sahtu communities, and we went to Fort Good Hope. The amount of questions was just unbelievably long because people out there are waiting for the authorities to come to their communities to offload their concerns to the appropriate individuals, to help with the redesigning and bringing back the traditional values to our communities, which are basically lost. There seems to be no industry there. Just to gauge that, are we making new initiatives to attract investment by the closure of the OROGO office when we haven't even really did a rights issue and sale? We cannot say that the rights issue and sale has respondents in the neighbourhood of five, ten oil companies, because we haven't done that. But yet we're going to take an inactive approach by shutting that office down when we haven't even gauged its potential.

And I really emphasize the need for, and I encourage every Member of Cabinet to go to the communities, spend a night there, listen to the elders, the parents.

The workforce opportunity in the private sector is so low, responses to national competitions are left with no responses. Zero. How can we encourage the outcomes of education when that workforce or that age group is plagued with addictions? And yet we throw more money on what is probably not going to materialize. So I think we got to learn to go to the root of the problem and design our business plan to address the weaknesses of society in our area.

We've got a weak energy sector. I would say we would all be shocked tomorrow to find out the number of employees that did not show up. I see that every day. And as a result of your employees not showing up, no production is done. This is why our public buildings are deteriorating, because of lack of maintenance. Now is the summertime to winterize and improve your efficiency of the building, including maintaining those boilers. But yet on the other hand, if we don't got employees showing up, it ain't going to get done.

So those are just some of the examples, but you got to really experience the examples by going to these smaller communities and talking and listening to people. Some of them may not be encouraged in a public forum but if the invitation was there to meet one on one, I would say we would all be shocked on the amount of requests we're going to get to meet privately to discuss the troubling drug and alcohol problems that we're facing. And as a result of that, today's society is -- I actually feel sorry for a lot of people that I see, whether it's at Stanton Hospital or out in the regional health centres. So being mindful of the resources' need, where the priority is, if we stay the course, I think we can see positive rehabilitation outcomes and a reformed society out there. And I'll have questions in this department at the appropriate activity there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.