I am glad to hear the Minister say that. I am hoping he will do this in a timely manner. The majority of these people who have been evicted are moving in with their parents, so it is going to be a compounding problem. As they move into their parents' low rental houses, the parent is going to have to pay additional rent. It is just a matter of time before we are evicting practically the whole community out of their units, because it is something that is growing. I understand there is another eviction list that is being developed. We are looking at upwards of 15 families being evicted in the next while. I do not know where it is going to end and I think it just points to the fact that we have a problem. It has to be dealt with.
That is what I wanted to state when I first started speaking, that we have a double standard. We have communities in the North where nobody pays rent, yet in some communities, in this case, we are having to deal with a lot of people who are going to be evicted. We have seven families now. We are looking at more. We are also looking at many people on the arrears list for land taxes. So it is not a small issue here that we are looking at. It is a huge issue that affects a lot of different families.
However, I wanted to ask the Minister, when it comes to home-ownership, in building homes that would be owned by the client or the people in the community, we are only building at the rate of two a year in Fort Providence, while our waiting list is upwards of 30. When I see committees like AOC or Regular Members state to the department that they should be looking to take some of this surplus that we had this year for, I think it was $160 million, and they do not tap into that budget. It makes me wonder if the Minister feels that we have adequate housing in the communities. Is that his position?