Thank you, Madam Chair. It is actually quite disheartening to hear that people in those homes have actually been told not to leave, to stay there, and we will find a solution, because I have seen the pictures. Some of those homes only have another few feet before they are falling off a cliff into the ocean. It is an emergency situation. I do know that, when I was in Municipal and Community Affairs, we were working on it. I know that Alfred Moses carried forward that work and tried to get money for it. I have no idea why the federal government never brought it forward. I think that we could be lobbying for that.
I know that we have also looked at, within our own GNWT, the NWT Housing Corporation stepping forward and actually moving those homes, and I think that it should still be on the table. My concern is that there are only a few more feet. We have, like, pipes and oil drums that are actually exposed now in the pictures that I have seen. I am afraid for these people. I agree with Frieda in saying that I don't know how they are sleeping. These homes are going to fall into the ocean, and it is not just about putting a barricade; they are on big cliffs. I don't think that we have time to wait, and so I really hope that the people in Tuktoyaktuk will hear our pleas and my concern, my deep concern.
If I am elected as Premier, I will commit to actually going into the community and trying to talk to those people. I will talk to the NWT Housing Corporation, and if the federal government isn't going to step up, then we have to be willing to provide homes for these people, recognizing that some of them can't be moved, perhaps, but we have to have a solution. Contrary to what you might want to hear, I do not think the solution is leaving those homes on the edge of a cliff when there are only two feet left. Thank you, Madam Chair.