It is not hard for me to hear you say that you cannot change it. I think from what we have seen we can basically change anything on that side of the House so I do not think there should be a problem changing this thing.

I would just like to state that from the percentage that we are looking at, especially in my riding where there are a large number of people who are elderly, who basically made the move to continue to maintain their own homes, and live in their own homes without moving into social housing and basically to keep a life style that they have grown to know. They have a lot of respect as they felt they were doing what they have done without being dependent on Government.

But from the way you have slashed and burned that is almost 60 percent of the people in the Mackenzie Delta that are excluded from this program, and for the people that you have left there, for the amount of money that they do have to maintain and basically operate their lifestyles, to continue to live in those units, they are going to have a heck of a time to make it with the income that you are leaving them with. $12,000 or $13,000 is not much when you are living in a community like Fort McPherson where basically it is going to cost four or five extra fill-ups besides the two that you get from the Government in a winter to maintain those units. Plus, for the amount of money that you do leave them with, you put them at such a low wage bracket that it is going to be amazing as to how these guys are going to sustain their own units.

I think you should reconsider the position, that you should make it retroactive and find the money elsewhere. Like I mentioned earlier on in my statement earlier last week, it is costing this government $80,000 a year to keep someone in YCI but we do not blink at that. Yet when it comes to saving $200,000, which is two individuals, maybe they are better off to go to YCI because at least there you will be taken care of by the government at $80,000 whereas it is going to cost you $1,200 to take care of an elder. Let us get our priorities straight here.