(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation. Up to today, we keep hearing from the Minister and from the public that there are concerns being expressed about the new rent scale. Mr. Speaker, I think people are becoming more and more concerned about what is happening as they come to understand it more.
We are aware that more people are going into the home ownership program and owning their own houses, and with the new rent scale, higher-income people will be offered new home ownership programs but people who have to stay in social housing are not going to be given access to these programs. Are the existing programs for home ownership going to stay in place? Right now, it is really hard for low-income people to access home ownership. I think this is becoming more of a concern. Does the Minister think that by offering new home ownership programs only to people who have higher incomes that it is being fair to people who are in the lower-income scale?
For example, if I worked and was in a higher-income bracket, am I going to have to go into home ownership? Do I have to buy my own house? Am I going to be evicted from social housing if I happen to live in one of the units? Or, are you going to make the home ownership program more accessible to people in the NWT? In the new rent scale, have you given consideration to those people who want to own their own homes through the home ownership programs? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.