Thank you.
Me, too. I'm furious. I understand. I've had enough.
I have to say that a question was asked about how you could deal with this and get away from the silos. In Armstrong, Ontario, years ago when I was going up there for the corrections department, I formed something called a Comsac team, a community services advisory committee. We had the Métis on it and we had the Whitesand representative on it.
We had all the ministries on it, provincial and federal, because I got sick and tired of going to Armstrong and missing the mental health worker who had just given somebody money--or hadn't--or missing another provincial or federal government worker who had just been up there, be it a juvenile probation officer or something, or someone from the corrections department. We formed these teams. Then it went up to Fort Hope. We did the same in Lansdowne House and Fort Hope.
The thing is, that is the way to do it, because.... Not only that, the people aren't stupid. They're going to skive you. They get $200 from someone from the province, from Comsac and then they turn around and ask you for the same $200. You don't know if Comsac just gave them $200; they're not going to tell you. So there are also checks and balances in place. That's one way how that would solve it.
The other way is that we have a northwestern Ontario intergovernmental committee. This is something launched by the Ministry of Labour of the province. We have the federal government representatives, the provincial government, and me. I sit on it representing the Municipality of the City of Thunder Bay with Greg Alexander.
Again, we talk about social issues. In our community, we talked about, somewhat touch-on only, and even though that isn't a mandate.... But the mandates of those committees could be turned into dealing with the issues we deal with, the people on the street. These are the people, our first nations people in this community, and that's really growing, and growing big. I just want to leave you with that.
Those are solutions I'm seeing that are working. They have worked somewhat, but again, when I left corrections, who knows? Maybe it all fell apart.
Thank you.