Tom Beaulieu

Yes, I would, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The act is specific in one area that the Member may be referring to. I will have the deputy minister just talk a bit about the specifics of that act and whether or not we have made changes there to remove that specific barrier.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, if we do get a report, we will provide it to the Members.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have the numbers of the children that were apprehended. Actually, I guess better yet, the children that are working with the child and family services people or a social worker. Some of them are in a voluntary agreement with the family and some are placed in foster care. We do have a total – I’ll just need to bring this a little bit closer. I would pick a date, Mr. Bromley, because it changes all the time. As of November 30, 2012, we had 582 children receiving services. Of that, 356 of those children were receiving services like counselling, respite services, at the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There has been no deliverables on this budget. It was again, Nats’ejee K’eh being part of the Deh Cho Health and Social Services that we are reviewing Nats’ejee K’eh as we indicated earlier that we’re pulling the Nats’ejee K’eh Treatment Centre under the department and just need to do some logistical work, I suppose, with reserves, since the treatment centre sits on the reserve, they have not spent their budget since 2011-2012.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I didn’t indicate that addictions was the responsibility, solely a personal responsibility. I’d indicated that addressing addictions was a personal responsibility and what we’re trying to do is to try to provide some supports, and mentioning the Nats’ejee K’eh would be one of those supports in addition to some of the community programs like on-the-land programs, also, in addition to some of the early findings of the forum of maybe addressing some parental issues, putting in programs to assist parents at the community level and so on.

So it wasn’t to take all the money...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We would like to have a few minutes to see if we have the information here with us.

Mr. Chairman, I think a fairly common thing has been that people sometimes end up with mental health issues as a result of addictions. Sometimes people with mental health end up with addictions. That’s why we see the two items fairly linked. We’re trying to give the forum the ability to, as we appointed them as experts in the community, that they are well known in the community and had good community knowledge, that they felt that removing the mental health from their forum would net better results and better consultation at the community level by using the term addictions and community...

Thank you. I will ask the deputy minister to provide a more detailed response to that question. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That budget is in the contribution to YK Health and Social Services. The overall contribution and the total amount is $175,000.