Okay.
Recommendations to the government.... I think right now for first nations the government has a band-aid effect. They give a little bit of money for a program; you just get a program going and the money runs out. At different times we have had different people employed in different areas, and the money will maybe go on for one year or it may go for five, but the funding is never continuous, and it needs to be.
As I said, if you look at the budget of the Department of Indian Affairs, we do not get hardly any money for counselling. Social services on reserve means handing out a welfare cheque, but there's nothing that comes with that cheque to provide services to the individual. It's a place where they go and get their food allowance, their housing allowance, and that's it. Nothing else comes with that cheque, not even in terms of our social workers being trained for counselling. So where does an individual go? They go to the band office and pick up the cheque. Sometimes health centres have some counselling available, but there too, if you look at budgets within health...as the health director, I am aware of this. I've been health director for a number of years in Montreal Lake, and not much money comes for counselling. We talk about our child and family services agents. There's too much focus on child apprehension without the counselling to the families. It's a cycle that needs to be changed in all areas of our communities, right from social assistance to health, to child family agencies, to the RCMP for the support they should be providing these families.