It's a difficult one. I look at the communities in the north and I look at my hometown where we've never had a suicide, and I look at another community that has never had a suicide. We have road access, but there is another community, Déline, where they've not had a child in court for 14 years. They are doing a lot of things right.
If I ask what the connection is, what the link is, there's a cultural connection to the land. There's hunting and fishing. I get excited and think, “Well, that's the solution”, but then I look at all the communities around it and see that they all have the same thing too, yet they have issues in this area. I don't know if there's one area we can point to.
I'm glad that you mentioned this needs to be dealt with from many angles: education, opportunity. All these things have to play a role.
I'm really interested in seeing your report come forward. I'm very interested in seeing how we would deliver programs and services, how we would include mental health services, treatment, and all these things that need to be in a community.
I'm not convinced that a political organization should be delivering these types of programs. Programs or delivery agents such as friendship centres and Aboriginal Head Start aren't tied in with the political community organizations. They're independent. I'm just wondering if there's been any thought to how programs and services could be delivered in communities, other than by government.