Thank you, Madam Chairperson. In regard the rates that were used, you used the number, I believe, $10,000 for the Minimum Down Payment Assistance Program, but in the eastern Arctic they used $15,000. I think their argument was because of the isolation and what not. Is there any possible consideration by the department to consider that we do have sub-arctic and arctic communities which fall within the same criteria as the eastern communities where they are isolated, where they are above the treeline, where there are different types of living conditions these people have? In the future, can the department take into consideration that in the west there is still sub-arctic versus an arctic layout of the land in which all communities are not in the same accessibility? In most communities, we do not have road access, we do have isolated communities and we do also have communities which are above the treeline, so that when you deliver programs you do allow for that increase in amounts for those communities similar to those being delivered in the eastern Arctic?
David Krutko on Committee Motion 8-13(7): Housing Funding Targeted For Aboriginal Housing (nwthc)
In the Legislative Assembly on April 26th, 1999. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 8-13(7): Housing Funding Targeted For Aboriginal Housing (nwthc)
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
April 25th, 1999
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