Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Menicoche.

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Thanks to the Minister. I appreciate the Minister’s explanation, but I have to disagree with his assessment because I don’t believe that you can separate the two. I think, by the forum and the Minister agreeing that there is a stigma on mental health, we are simply making it worse. I think, until we start talking about mental health and accepting that it is an issue, some people refer to it as a disease, but until we start bringing that to the fore and accepting that is a problem that we have, we won’t adequately deal with it. I think it’s unfortunate that the forum members wanted to remove...

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. Guy.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. To the motion.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. We are on general comments. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Guy. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to make a few brief comments with regard to the motion. I am in support of the motion. I think it’s important that we go back a bit in history and to the beginning of the 17th Assembly when we set priorities for this Assembly. At that time, we set those priorities based on the way the world was at that time. There was a big focus on the Inuvik-Tuk highway and we still have that focus. Times change and I think we have to roll with the times, so to speak, and I think we have to recognize that we currently have a huge amount of activity in the Sahtu region and I...

At the risk of going beyond this page, there is an amount on page 8-32, at the very bottom, for mental health and addictions authorities, $125,000. Could I know what that references?

Page 7-13, Public Works and Services, activity summary, directorate, operations expenditure summary, $8.988 million. Mr. Moses.