Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to address a crisis of accountability regarding children who have been stripped of their homes and are in care in another jurisdiction within the NWT. The real grim our children are in care and dumped into environments that actively fail to support their well-being. This isn't a matter of minor administration oversight. This is systemic failure. My constituents and many communities are demanding to know why established protocols are being ignored when responsibility for the vulnerable children is in other facilities when they cannot be in their home communities with immediate family members. The Minister needs to understand this is a blatant disregard for placement protocols when Indigenous children enter the system. We have clear directives. Priority must be given to the culturally appropriate family and community-based care with institutionalized or licensed foster care used strictly as a last resort. Instead, those protections are being bypassed.

Mr. Speaker, these protocols are not optional guidelines. They exist to protect the child's cultural identity, their family ties, and their basic human rights. We cannot tolerate a two-tier system where children outside our borders are stripped of protection, care, and procedural accountability that they're legally owed. The department must be able to assist these children and families to be reunited under proper protocol. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will have questions from the Minister at the appropriate time.