Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The government is a provider of housing in some indirect and direct ways. We do this through the income support payments whereby we provide the client with the cost of rent. The responsibility is on the part of the tenant to pay the rent to the landlord in the case of private housing.

In that case, there is a responsibility, in other words, between both. Both the landlord and the tenant to assume responsibility for such issues as maintenance and upkeep of the unit.

We do not enter into that directly with private landlords, Mr. Speaker, because our payment is to the client rather than to the landlord itself. There may be cases, which would be small numbers, where there has been a choice made to have us pay the landlords directly, but I believe those are small numbers. Thank you.