Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We talk about regulatory reform in trying to streamline the government. This is one area where we seem to have a lot of subsidies, but the way it works is you have to prove that you exist, you are who you say you are, where you have to go to a Commissioner for Oaths.
The communities we are talking about, they are small enough. The hamlet should be the one doing the checking because they are the ones providing the services to these communities. They know who are in those communities and the paperwork could be done in one central location, which could be done easily, through the hamlet office, so they do not have to go through this stress that these elders go through each year, where they have property assessment. In some cases, you get two or three of these a month.
The person goes to the post office and he is getting another bill. He is saying, what is going on. He just keeps seeing these things rolling off. It is costing us money where someone has to put it into the system every time. There is a cost to this government. If there are savings there that we can look at in regard to how often these assessments go out, so they do not have to go out every month, they can go out every six months or something so that they do not have go to the post office and have another assessment in the mail.
I think that should be looked at in the context of streamlining the cost to this government, possibly putting the checklists closer in the community, such as a hamlet where everyone deals with services with this government. Maybe you can give them the authority to ensure that these people still occupy these residences and they are who they say they are, so they do not have to go through the burden of having the elders do it. Thank you.