Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I could not give the Member an accurate name as to who is taking care of the correspondence. I think most departments and private sector companies are aware that once we have established Nunavut they would be on their way and looking to take care of business in their own fashion.
In the west, we have seen a reduction for a number of years in the amount of new housing starts, mainly because of area of budgeting as well as the lower amount of public housing units. We have not for a number of years built public housing units but the highest portion of that was always in Nunavut. In the west, the housing we are seeing is more in the area of MDAPP that we have right now and that is to help people get into existing homes, or possibly go into new homes. The more we move in that area, especially an example is EDAPP, we are giving the potential homeowner more control of how they would buy and receive supplies. In the old programs where the government had a large majority of it, we would include in our packages a lot of products that were made in the north. Now with the newer programs, the individual homeowners have more of a responsibility in that area of what products they would buy, whether they would buy locally or from other manufacturers from the south. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.