Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There has been discussion with the Minister for Housing, about opportunities and initiatives that might undertake to increase our capacity to provide adequate housing to our people, particularly in the small communities. Given our limited resources and the almost total absence of federal resources for building homes and houses, there have been a number of meetings between the Northwest Territories Development Corporation, the Housing Corporation and the Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, and even the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs.
The idea of providing logs to build homes would create a housing market in small communities and utilize the labour force that we know exists in the communities. People who are ready, skilled and trained to build houses are there. We are looking at an overall picture trying to come up with some ideas on how we can, given our very limited resources, increase the number of houses that we can build in our communities. Thank you.