Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to Mr. Hicks and Mr. Obed for their presentations.
This is a huge issue across the north, as you have indicated. I am from the Northwest Territories. I chair the northern caucus, and we have had several discussions on this—not in a lot of detail, as you have presented here today, but just looking at and comparing the issue in our ridings. We recognize that Nunavut has a crisis situation, and in the Northwest Territories we have a crisis situation. Labrador has indicated that they have serious issues in that area, to the point where it is also a crisis situation.
Then we look at the Yukon, and it is not quite the same, so we automatically try to point to.... Is it because they have roads? Is it because they are not as isolated? Is the quality of living better there? It is really hard. I think everybody is trying to point to the actual issue, but it is a big, broad issue. It is something that is intertwined in many aspects of living in a small community, in an aboriginal community, and the lack of opportunity, the poverty, and all these things come to the forefront.
I still wanted to check with you and hear what you have to say about the factor of isolation and how that plays into suicide. I read your report. It is a very good report, and I appreciate it. It brought a lot of information forward. You look at it from different angles, but I don't hear you say anything about isolation.