Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I suppose if we took the wrecking ball to these 15 houses, we would have a hard time accommodating students, but that's not what we are proposing. Somehow, the replacement of these houses has moved ahead in the capital plan, ahead of dealing with the housing issues in Yellowknife. We have no college housing and we've got a wait list. The consultation comments on the replacement of these old buildings -- and I acknowledge they are old -- but it suggests that replacing these family houses with townhouse units would reduce O and M costs and simplify management. I think that's something that, as a long-term goal, we should be looking towards.

We are talking about capital priorities. I think we've heard in this corporate capital planning process, the highest priorities should float to the top. The Minister of each department comes to the table and talks about his highest priority items and how to get them on the capital plan and, oftentimes, has to fight very hard to get those projects acknowledged ahead of other very important projects and other departments. So I don't understand how the replacement of these houses gets bumped ahead of dealing with college housing in Inuvik or Yellowknife. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. If there are safety concerns at the Brown and Green houses, let's deal with those. If there are fire marshal concerns, we've got to fix those right now. We can't have people in unsafe housing. This stuff is just old. There's a big difference.