Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Morin for your comments. I just want to go back to the housing issue. We all know the federal government is not committing any funds to housing. What I am asking for, and what my constituents are asking for, and what the people of the Northwest Territories are asking for, is some type of strategic plan to help us build some extra homes. Now we are doing that through the HAP access program, and I think we are having some success with that. I celebrate that. I am pleased with that. We are using that quite a lot in my community. I said we are short about 70 housing units, but at the same time, we are renting over one hundred, I think, units, for social housing, in my community. So really, we are short about 170, if you count the ones we are leasing, at exorbitant prices, at the present time. Maybe we should take some money from those leases, and start building some units. That was my point.

On the job area, I do know there is some minor exploration work going on our region, but that is not creating the jobs that we are talking about. There are operating mines, as we all know, in Nanisivik and Polaris, but we are still hearing rumblings now that they are going to close down. But we need a strategic employment plan. Because not everyone wants to be a miner. And everyone does not want to work finding rocks in the ground. A lot of people would like to look at some type of flexible work arrangements. Maybe we could look at something like that. Out of the NIC report, one of the nice recommendations that they did have, was allowing flexible work weeks, and job sharing, and things like that. That is what I am talking about. If this government could have some type of strategic job employment plan, not just for the larger centres but for the smaller centres too. We also need some type of strategic housing plan to help, not just build social housing units, but also help foster that booming of local and private housing market that we are starting to see now in our communities.

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I did not catch what Mr. Todd said, because I do not have my mike on. Those are the things that I am asking for, and those are the things that my constituents, and the people of the Northwest Territories are asking for. I think it is about time that we looked at that. Where is our strategic job plan, where is our strategic housing plan? We can all talk about how the feds have cut us, and what we cannot look at, but we are looking at this, and we are looking at that, but, I would like to see this government come out and say, we are going to try and create 500 jobs, new jobs, outside of just this mining thing. And if we only get 300, at least we have a moving figure that we can target. We are going to try to build one hundred new units, and maybe we can only build forty. But at least we have a target. So I would like the minister to consider that, and overall, like I said, the sessional statement was motherhood and apple pie. It is hard to be contradictory to what was said. But I think those two major initiatives will help us to establish the two viable new territories by April 1st, 1999. Thank you, Madam Chair.