Mr. Chairman, first of all, to clarify that the Housing Corporation's mandate and budget is for public housing and there are some very, very tight limitations in terms of what kind of housing they can build. Paulatuk is a community in which there is, first of all, not much housing available. Second, the community was unable to fully staff their school without additional housing.
To build housing for staff is beyond the mandate of the Housing Corporation. The only way to get additional housing into the community -- there was no other alternative except to move someone else out of their house -- was to have more housing built. The Housing Corporation had to go beyond their mandate, use money in 2001-2002 to do it, and now the government is reimbursing them for the cost they had to bear, which was outside of their mandate in order to resolve the problem with staffing the school.
There are other communities that probably have housing concerns too, but Paulatuk is a much more extreme case than anywhere else. Thank you.