The child and youth protection centre in Cowansville has given us this figure.
The proportion has always been high, but it's especially higher this past year because of the greater awareness of teachers, nurses, and helping professionals of the socio-economic problems in the English-speaking community. So that attitude of demoralization that Michael mentioned earlier comes into play here.
We did a series of focus groups throughout the Eastern Townships with high school students about two years ago. One of them said that if you want to live in the Townships, you have two choices: one is to join the Hells Angels and the other is to live on welfare. This is a rather stark choice.
But with that kind of attitude, and with families who have low incomes or generally unfavourable situations turning to--I was going to say criminal activities, but social problems--drug addictions or whatever, those persons would be more at risk.
I think that comes into play, but I think the good news is that through the networking program, we are now meeting those needs. That is exactly why the percentage is so high now, because those needs are being signalled and the population is feeling trust that the system will respond to those needs. Perhaps a few years ago that level of trust wasn't there. So the portrait is changing.