Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to speak about the seniors, especially those in the community I represent. There has been an ongoing issue that they have been working on for a number of years now. As a government and as the Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, I have met with my colleague from Inuvik Twin Lakes and we have tried to have something occur in the sense of where some of our seniors want to spend some of their retirement days in the community of Inuvik.
The seniors' society or group out of Inuvik that Mrs. Bertha Allen has put together and worked quite hard on behalf of, trying to ensure the elders of the community, those that first helped establish the community when it was first built, are looking to set up a seniors' home complex that would be in the same vicinity as where they had initially set up their tents when the town of Inuvik was being built.
That area happens to fall right in the same area that is now called the Happy Valley Campsite that the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development has built over a number of years within the community of Inuvik. The seniors have worked with Housing and they know that the business, in the sense of building homes for them, that plan is falling together and they are very happy that the Housing Corporation has worked with them in that area, but it is a matter of where it is going to be built, Mr. Speaker.
The elders of the community, those who were born and raised in the Delta, have a special interest in that when they look out their windows as seniors, they can see the rivers they travelled on the Delta, that they raised their families in. They want to be able to remember that in their days as seniors. They are even willing to put some of their own capital into this. Right now, a number of seniors in the community of Inuvik own their own homes but as costs continue to go up, it becomes more and more difficult for them to stay in their own homes. They have to look forward now as to where they are going to be staying.
Mr. Speaker, I will be asking questions of the appropriate Minister during question period in this regard. Thank you.
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