Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A list of all of the houses and locations was given to the standing committee. Since the Member is not a member of that, I will just go through it very quickly. The costs are for both owned and leased units. By region, in the South Slave, we still have 25 units that are owned and none leased. In the Western Arctic, there are eight owned and nine leased. In the North Slave, ten owned, 16 that are leased for a total of 68 units throughout the Northwest Territories.
The department is continually downsizing and working at transferring the units to hamlets and communities as quickly as we can, but it takes some time. The leased units are units which the government entered into long term leases some time ago. We have them on our hands until the lease runs out or we are able to transfer that lease elsewhere. Thank you.