Sandy Lee

Mr. Chairman, yes, I will get back to the Member and Members here. Thank you.

Thank you. If the Member could provide me with more information on what he said that’s within my budget that I should re-look at, I’d be happy to do that.

That would be a capital item and it would have to go through the capital planning process.

Mr. Chairman, I gave those on Friday. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, I will look to see what we can do. Thank you. It is actually a real old internal document. I need to track it down and work with other agencies, but I will do what I can. Thank you.

Yes, we do have those and we work with other departments and agencies on cultural and language components. I will undertake to have that as part of the reply I provide to him. Thank you.

There have been a number of initiatives, so I would like to get the deputy minister to just highlight some of them. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, my information is that there is lack of enrolment. I do not know the reasons for that. I will get back to the Member on the questions about what he committed to get back to. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That information is not a public document. There was not a formal report per se. It was more of an internal working document as to where the money was spent. It was basically a budget document. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I could tell you that the shelters that we have now are having a hard time finding providers, so our focus for now has to be in strengthening the shelters that we have, but understanding that there are communities without shelters that need our assistance as well. We are providing and supporting that. We need to concentrate on that.

As to why we are seeing an increase in the number, I am sure we will have to do a more in-depth analysis on that, but the NWT has not been spared from the economic downtown. Often when there is economic downturn, lots of facts show that family violence...