Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am confident that the sales program we have got is the best sales program in Canada, never mind North America. What other jurisdiction says to its employees--buy this house, at a significant discount. The mortgage payments will be less than your rent, and at the same time, it says, if you cannot sell it, we will buy it back when you leave. So I am fairly confident, Mr. Speaker, that we will be able to, with some reassuring, and with the co-operation of the teachers and some of its Executive and its Association, that we will be able to convince the majority of teachers that this is a good deal for them, as it has been for other employees. And that, at the end of the day, we will have a strategy, and do have a strategy in place, to ensure that adequate housing will be available. If some teachers and others choose to leave, then we will just have to take the appropriate measures to recruit new ones that like the new conditions that exist in the recruitment policies.
John Todd on Question 531-13(3): Ensuring Housing For Northern Teachers
In the Legislative Assembly on October 18th, 1996. See this statement in context.
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Question 531-13(3): Ensuring Housing For Northern Teachers
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 17th, 1996
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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