Minister of Housing, Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are working right now with the local housing authorities. I understand that every three days, approximately a little over 10 per cent of the people are coming forward. The local housing authorities verify their income and the local housing authorities have told us they are going to start working at nights and in some cases hire extra staff to visit people in their homes, explain it properly and they feel they could meet the deadline. But in some cases where tenants are out of town or on the land or do not understand this document, then we would consider working with these tenants to make sure they do understand. Any rental decreases or increases would have to wait until they fully understand that. Thank you.

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Allooloo.

Mr. Speaker, as the Minister knows, because of a lack of communication that has taken place in the past or other problems, right now in my constituency there are people being evicted from their houses in 40 below weather. They have no place to go when they have been evicted. I'm trying to say, Mr. Speaker, that the answers the Minister has been giving us...If these people with the wrong information do not come forward with their income, their income assessment will be based on the maximum. I'm afraid those people who do not come forward because of this wrong information the

Housing Corporation gave, will be in the same boat as those in my constituency who are being evicted in 40 below weather.

Mr. Speaker, I am questioning whether the government is considering the Inuktitut letter as official, with the same status as the English letter they have sent. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are going to be working with the local housing authorities, as well as the tenants, to ensure that all people understand the rent scale. Even as of today, people are working aggressively at the local housing authorities to try to get people to understand the new rent scale. This notice is no different than any other notices that are given out. Occasionally, to calculate rents, people are requested to come in and verify their income and they should do so.

As of April 1st, the rents will go to the maximum if they do not come in. What we'll do is work with the tenants, and if they did not understand that or it was beyond their control -- if they're out on the land or whatever -- then we would make it retroactive. You also have to remember that there are people whose rents are going down. For 30 per cent of the people, rent is going down. So it wouldn't be fair to those people to leave their rents higher just because they didn't understand this documentation. So we would work with them to ensure it's taken care of.

Members have raised a legitimate concern and we will work to address it. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister of Personnel a question. Mr. Speaker, I initially asked the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation if he could provide the number of PYs for the Housing Corporation, prior to the break. His response is, unfortunately, no. I would like to ask the Minister of Personnel whether she would commit to providing the number of PYs for the Housing Corporation.

Point of order, Mr. Morin.

Point Of Order

So, Mr. Morin, what's your point of order?

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member said that I said no to tabling the number of PYs in this House and I did not do that. Thank you.

Mr. Morin, you don't have a point of order. It's standard procedure to clarify your answers to the Members. So we will just carry on. Mrs. Marie-Jewell.