Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to say at the onset that I support the concept of user-pay as long as it is implemented fairly and dealt with in a fair manner. The overall intent of this restructuring is to provide more housing for the lower-income to moderate-income families, which our public housing program is supposed to be geared towards. At the same time, I would like to point out that the Housing Corporation, and ourselves have a responsibility to find some alternate and affordable housing for some of these higher income earners. I believe the Minister has tried to address this in saying that the emphasis may be on the access private home ownership units versus public rent supplement units in the next year or two years, or whatever it is going to take.

Has the Housing Corporation already undertaken a survey of higher income families to see if these new rental rates are enacted on what their choice is? Are they going to look at the alternatives of owning their own houses? If that is the case, how is the Housing Corporation going to address that and meet those needs of these higher income families? Thank you.