Mr. Chairman, I recognize what you are saying, but can I ask this question and maybe be a little bit more specific? I also have a comment While I recognize, and I have said to the Minister on a number of occasions, that you can, in accordance with the financing formula with CMHC, build X amount of HAP houses versus one public, but there is still a great deal of people who require social housing, so a certain amount of caution has to be taking place. While in an ideal world we would all like to own our own houses, there are a number of people who just do not have the financial capacity to do that, and, as a socially responsible government, our job is to ensure that these people are given a fair opportunity to have housing.

My concern would be that there would be an enthusiastic rush to get seven houses versus one, and I think we have to balance that very carefully. I can understand the enthusiasm for it, and I am sympathetic, but there has to be a certain amount of caution in that there is still a requirement for what I call public-funded social housing. That is the one point I would like to make.

On the other point, I am wondering if I can ask the Minister about the rent income supplement program which I understand works reasonably well in some of the larger centres. Could this type of program perhaps be incorporated into the other parts of the Arctic where you have private sector initiative, to build these houses, and you have Housing Corporation support'? Two questions, and one is more a comment. I want to caution the Minister in terms of we are all enthusiastic about the HAP program and nobody is more enthusiastic than I am, but we must ensure that It does not take away from those who have the least; that is, the people who desperately need public housing. While I am an advocate of the HAP program, HAP people usually are in a position to at least pay the O and M, and in some cases have the capacity to build their own home. A lot of people, not everybody, who are in public housing have the capacity to build their own homes. A lot of people, not everybody, who are in public housing have the capacity to do neither. I wonder, too, if perhaps there is some way of accelerating or maintaining the current level. It might be an advance in this rent income supplement program. I wonder what your thoughts are on that, Mr. Morin.