Thank you.
You had a couple of really good questions there, Mr. Martin. One of them I think is really important is when you ask about legislation. One of the things my colleague Bonnie brought up is very apparent to any of us who have much dealing with the United States, for example. I live in the Yukon. I live in Whitehorse in a remote area and we're very close. We do a lot of business with Alaska.
One of the things we recognize is that we are a country that by definition and by our example tends to be very conciliatory and very accommodating and compromising, and that's what we've done. What happens is that we rely on voluntary compliance. That's what we rely on in this country, voluntary compliance to move these things forward. And I will tell you it is an abysmal failure. It doesn't work. So the federal leadership role we talk about really does need to include legislation, because it's almost the only way we really can solidly move forward.
As long as disability issues are seen as cost-restrictive, which they are right now, that won't change, because we value money. We don't necessarily value the quality of life stuff or the other things we need. So what we've seen is, for example, that what gets ignored.... We just had a national federal justice meeting about FASD in the fall in the Yukon. One of the very staggering stats that came out of it was that if you don't deal with somebody with FASD in the corrections system, it will cost on average about $1 million a year to deal with that one person. So if folks don't pick up on that stuff and run with it, then we know we do have to have legislation. We have to have something hardened and solid that takes that leadership control and basically puts it out there.