Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Certainly I'm really pleased to see some of the updates and some of the achievements of our visions that we had when we began the Assembly, that we developed in January and February; in particular with regard to the challenging needs of our health and social services needs of all the communities and our whole territory. There was also some progress on addressing our formula financing needs. In particular, I think one of the best things that we've achieved so far to date, of course, is balancing our budget for the 2003-2004 fiscal year. That was quite an
achievement in itself and that's one of the things that the constituents that I represent certainly were looking for when they asked me to represent them as MLA for the Nahendeh riding.
That being said, a lot of the constituents have been saying housing is indeed a priority for all the residents and communities, not only in my riding, but throughout the NWT as a whole. My opinion on that is that it doesn't seem that the government is making it as high a priority as everything else. Some of our achievements to date could make room for making housing more of a priority. I believe over the last three or four years we say housing is a priority, Madam Chair, but our budget continually seems to decline in the housing area. I'd like to bring that to the forefront and say if housing is such a priority for our government, then let's actually do something about it. I know that we're trying to address that the best that we can now, but some of the things we're going to need even I don't like saying, but we need a huge capital injection just to get some sustainable baseline for housing.
I'd just like to know what the government's plan for housing in the next year or few years is in terms of making it an actual priority for our government. Thank you, Madam Chair.