Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Log homes are great, but unfortunately not everyone in the Northwest Territories will want log homes. For those that do, it is available and if it is cheap, it is great. My thinking is that we should be manufacturing homes of different styles, using northern lumber manufactured in the North, cut in the North by people in the North.
I know in Nunavut alone they need 2,000 homes today. That is without projections. The biggest cost they incur when they are building up there is the time it takes to put a house together. The short summer season does not allow them to finish the job. The work then goes into the following year and that is a cost overrun.
There have been studies done by private groups who say they could design a home, prefab it and send it anywhere in the Northwest Territories and put it together for around $285 with a team of four or five individuals. This, incidentally, is just enough for EI, for a lot of those guys who are working seasonal work. I am wondering if there has been a feasibility study done by the Housing Corporation in that area? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.