Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I made a Member's statement some time ago, "Implementation of Social Housing Rental Scale." I still have concerns in this area because I have been hearing a number of concerns from my constituents as well as from the Cape Dorset Hamlet Council and Broughton Island Housing Association board raising their concerns. This government has been working very hard in the last three years to try and eliminate violence and family problems, yet as the hamlet of Cape Dorset put it together, this rental scale has the potential of creating more of the direct social problems, such as suicide and family violence. The way the rental scale is structured is being looked at as a subtle attack on family structure. I would like to ask the Minister, in the development of the proposed new rental scale for social housing, has the Minister of the Housing Corporation considered the potential problems that will certainly be created within the households as a result of sharing of rental responsibilities?
Rebecca Mike on Question 372-12(7): Potential Problems Resulting From New Social Housing Rent Scale
In the Legislative Assembly on March 31st, 1995. See this statement in context.
Question 372-12(7): Potential Problems Resulting From New Social Housing Rent Scale
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 30th, 1995
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Rebecca Mike Baffin Central
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