Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I can inform the honourable Minister that I have approached established contractors in the Baffin region. I have been told that not only has the government not asked them about this proposition, but if the government did take the trouble to ask them whether they would be interested in this proposition of building houses for staff, they would be seriously questioning taking that kind of risk. Since the Minister speculates that the divisional board of education, the health board and like agencies would be prepared to enter into these long-term arrangements so developers would have the sort of financial security required to invest in staff housing in such a high risk, high cost environment as the eastern Arctic. Has the Minister and the department consulted with the Baffin health board or the Baffin divisional board of education about providing the kind of lease guarantees to the private sector in that region so that housing could be constructed in communities such as Arctic Bay? Have those consultations taken place with those regional boards? Thank you.
Dennis Patterson on Question 414-12(3): Staff Housing Shortage In Remote Communities
In the Legislative Assembly on March 4th, 1993. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 414-12(3): Staff Housing Shortage In Remote Communities
Question 414-12(3): Staff Housing Shortage In Remote Communities
Item 5: Oral Questions
March 3rd, 1993
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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit
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