Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When can we see this begin? As soon as this budget goes through will we start seeing the establishment of new positions in this area? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, work is underway in this particular initiative as we speak and part of the FAS conference on here this weekend will in fact bring in the folks who pioneered the Hawaii model which is where we are taking the concept of the family visitor from. They are working in the communities identifying the needs, looking at the kinds of training. We are looking at this as we speak. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Minister responsible for Justice, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, our early assessments are they will have no impact on any existing facilities across the Northwest Territories. This just enhances the young offenders programs and because of the statistics it is more geared towards those young adults who want to participate in on the land programs. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it indicates alternative home/camp operators. I assume these are two different alternatives for accommodating open custody young offenders. If that is not correct the Minister can correct me, but I was wondering, how many positions or placements is this call for proposals intended to secure? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Minister responsible for Justice, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do not have the specific numbers, but I understand the intent is to catalogue all of the potential camp operators and those who are willing to provide that level of service to the department. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, are there any open custody young offender camp operations in existence right now? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Minister responsible for Justice, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To my knowledge there are 11 currently in operation. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Final supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just for clarification then, there is no difference between an alternative home camp operator -- that is all the same thing? Those are on the land camps? He is not looking for homes to accommodate open custody young offenders then. Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Minister responsible for Justice, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If I may go back to the original question and just correct myself, I apologize to Mrs. Groenewegen, but there are seven young offender alternative open custody home operators who are also under contract to the department to provide both levels of service. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, presently we have an act within this Legislature which is the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Act. In regard to the responsibilities that they are supposed to be carrying out, Mr. Speaker, some of those responsibilities are to provide, deliver, maintain and manage housing programs for seniors, families and individuals receiving social allowances and social assistance, individuals requiring nursing care and it goes on.

Mr. Speaker, nowhere in here do I see anything that states that a community such as Tsiigehtchic will receive less status or less service knowing that through a study that was done by the Housing Corporation, it recognizes that the community of Tsiigehtchic had 62 percent of households in core need.

I would like to ask the Minister, are there two different policies in the Housing Corporation for small communities and large communities? Is there a difference in treatment between small and large communities? Is there a specific policy there?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for Housing, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No there is not. We do not discriminate against the small communities versus the large. They all have, under a formula, access to a level of funding. Sometimes that level of funding is enhanced where we leverage other land claimant dollars or private funding through a number of different entities to develop more affordable home ownership.

In other instances, we use what we call the rental market. There are a number of methodologies we employ to deliver home ownership and rental housing. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.