Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to just discuss some of the work that the Inuvik Interagency Committee has been doing over the past year, I suppose. On the request of the Inuvik Interagency Committee, research was conducted in the community of Inuvik by Dr. Michael Young with the Royal Roads University on a Hard to House research program that he worked on. It presented initial findings on the research that he did with homelessness in Inuvik that was done this past winter. The way he did it was he did a lot of surveys and he did some focus groups, specifically with individuals who have been homeless or without stable housing in the past year, and then they explored strategies that could assist them in avoiding homelessness and securing long-term housing.
This week, on Thursday, in the community of Inuvik, I encourage all Members and all organizations that work with people in homelessness and also with mental health and addictions to attend this event. I look forward to getting the information and the research findings from this event and look at creating some type of strategy here with the government so that it can be one of our documents and, kind of, templates that we might be able to follow to address the homelessness issues in our small communities in our regions.
I just want to comment all the hardworking individuals, and organizations and groups from the Inuvik interagency meeting that I’ve had the pleasure of working with for the last 12 to 13 years, and all the great programs that they do, this being one of them. Like I said, I look forward to finding those results, creating strategies and being able to not only help the people of Inuvik that need long-term stable housing and a place to live for the homeless, but for all communities of the Northwest Territories, and creating that template that I will be able to bring into the House and share with all the Members and residents of the Northwest Territories. Like I said, I commend all the hard work that the interagency group in Inuvik does and taking care of the people of the community. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Moses. Member for Weledeh, Mr. Bromley.
