Thank you. Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Every year, the allocation changes in the communities. For example, last year, I think we had borrowed approximately 30 or 40 units from some of the eastern communities and built them in the west, and then paid them back the following year. But I made all that information available to SCOF when we did that. Whenever a unit is put off one year, it's always replaced the next year. But this year what we've done, even without specific allocations, in some of the communities where there were 40 access units not allocated, we built them regardless. So there's always some give and take to make sure we expend all the funds and build as many units as we can, but they're always paid back. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Gargan.

My supplementary, Mr. Minister, is in the Minister's response he said that even when clients are not identified, the construction went ahead. I would like to ask the Minister, have you based the construction of those units on the needs assessment if, in fact, you haven't identified but you still went ahead.

Thank you. Minister of Housing, Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. The majority of those 40 access units are being built in the eastern Arctic. Potential clients who are living in public housing with the artificial rent cap have to be encouraged to go into home ownership. I had talked to the Members about this previously, that we were going to go ahead and build those units because they will be taken up by clients. There's a need in the community. But if you have artificial caps to rent where people can live in public housing and make $70,000 or $80,000 and pay $100 or $150 a month rent, there's no encouragement for

them to take up the home ownership unit. So this way, once the rent scale is passed by this Legislative Assembly, the units will be there, ready for people to occupy. Thank you, Madam Speaker.