Okay, thank you. So it just goes to show that we really do have an addiction issue in the North, and especially with the drugs and alcohol. So it's just that there is the difference here is that there's reductions. I have an issue with that where, you know, why? Because we know that there is a major issue. You know, and why there's a reduction within the budget. I know that just like what my colleague said from Mackenzie Delta, in small communities, and in here too, we know of someone who is suffering with addictions. We even have family members who are suffering, you know, with addiction issues. And lately I've been hearing in my region is that a lot of people are seeking help. They want to go for help. They want to go deal with their addiction issues. So I know that there's the on the land base. So some of those will work for some people. And with the treatment facility, some it will work, it will work for some people. Because we don't have something to fall back on when they come back, like the transition centre or a program that's going to be, you know, helping these people. Some of them, they only last a day as soon as they come back. So we do need something in place. Because the government is spending a lot of money trying to send -- you know, to send the people out to get help that they need to deal with their addictions. But there's nothing. There's nothing in place for a lot of -- in the small communities, like there's nothing. It's going to be -- it's good that Yellowknife -- and there's Yellowknife and Inuvik. But from my region, there probably -- you know, there's nothing there for my communities or for my regions. And with things that's happening in Yellowknife, crime related to drugs, it's a lot of people are scared to go to Yellowknife to seek help. So with the transition centre that's being proposed in two communities, I just wanted to ask the Minister if they're looking at having the same program in other regions for next fiscal year. Thank you.
Jane Weyallon Armstrong on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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