Item 12, tabling of documents. Mr. Patterson.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to table Tabled Document 112-12(3), a letter dated March 17, 1993, to all tenants from Ken Lovely, deputy minister of Personnel, which refers to an act which does not exist. Thank you.

Item 12, tabling of documents. Item 13, notices of motion. Item 14, notices of motions for first reading of bills. Item 15, motions. Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to go to tabling of documents, please.

The honourable Member is seeking unanimous consent to return to Item 12, tabling of documents. Are there any nays? There are no nays. Please proceed, Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have three documents to be tabled. Tabled Document 113-12(3), Canadian criminal cases, the Crown versus S R H et al with respect to young offenders' disposition secure custody and the principles of secure custody.

Tabled Document 114-12(3), an excerpt from the Canadian Criminal Code, the Prince Edward Island Supreme Court regarding the L H F and the Queen by Justice Mcdonald with regard to young offenders' disposition.

Tabled Document 115-12(3), a Canadian criminal case regarding the Manitoba court of appeal with respect to F and the Queen et al regarding young offenders' disposition quoting "Judge given the power to sentence young offenders to open custody or secure custody open custody definition designation facility. Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Marie-Jewell. Item 12, tabling of documents. Item 15, motions. Item 16, first reading of bills. Item 17, second reading of bills. Item 18, consideration in committee of the whole of bills and other matters. In order to speed up the proceedings of the orders of the day, from now on I will just read the numbers of tabled documents, bills and committee reports, but not the details.

---Applause It is an example I am sure all Members will share in the future. Tabled Document 2-12(3), Tabled Document 19-12(3), Tabled Document 91-12(3), Tabled Document 92-12(3), Bill 5, Bill 17, Bill 18, Bill 19, Bill 21, Bill 22, Bill 23, Committee Report 10-12(3), Committee Report 11-12(3), Committee Report 15-12(3), Committee Report 17-12(3), with Mr. Ningark in the chair. Mr. Ningark is not here, with Mr. Pudluk in the chair.

This committee will now come to order. What is the wish of this committee? Member for Thebacha.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We would like to continue with the budget estimates, continuing with the NWT Housing Corporation. Thank you.

Does this committee agree?

Agreed.

---Agreed

Thank you. I believe we were on the opening remarks from the chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance. Would the Minister like to bring in his witnesses at this time? All right, we will take a 15 minute break.

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Good afternoon. Mr. Minister, do you want to invite in your officials at this time?

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you. Does this committee agree?

Agreed.

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Northwest Territories Housing Corporation

Thank you. Sergeant-at-Arms.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have with me Mr. Dave Murray, acting president of the Housing Corporation, and Mr. Jeff Anderson, acting vice president of finance.

Thank you. We are on the NWT Housing Corporation. General comments. Are there any general comments? Page by page. Member for Thebacha.

General Comments

Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Minister, through you, a question with respect to the Housing Corporation's new programs. Can the Minister give us a status report with respect to the planning of how these programs are being developed? Are they basically on target? What has been the feedback from the communities? How are they being accepted in the communities? Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So far, the acceptance of the new access program, home ownership program, has been very good. I have not had any negative response from anyone. People seem to have accepted that they would pay a certain portion of their income to provide housing for themselves. The program is going along on schedule. We have made it very clear to the communities that any changes they would like implemented in the program should go through the consultation process from the community to regional level, and on to our level to the advisory committee on MLAs, to refine the program if necessary, next fall. The most negative response we have received to date is the fact that we do not have enough dollars or units to give out. Thank you.

Thank you. General comments. Mr. Pudlat.

(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With regard to the home ownership program, the way I understood the program was that they would be going by salary income. I am not aware of what exactly is happening. Has the program been implemented? I just wanted to get clarification.