Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I'd like to thank the Premier and the Minister for their kind response and I think above all, if anything, I'd just like to say to the government let's highlight this, let's move it up on our agenda. Let's take more of an active approach on addressing our needs.
In my riding alone, I think there's one particular community that really skews it. It's actually Fort Liard. Just for that place alone to get all their houses back up to snuff, be it for whatever reason that their houses have been left by the wayside and it hasn't really been addressed. I always tell people Fort Liard is always left out in the cold just because on the geographic map, they actually are in the corner and people forget about them, but I'm not. I was just talking with some of the housing experts. We're looking at almost $750,000 for that community alone just to get things back up to square one and address those needs. The Premier himself said in his statement, healthy people need healthy homes. It's one of the basic necessities in life.
With that, I'd just like to encourage the government to continue. Every time we do sessional statements or produce updates on our vision for this Assembly, we keep moving housing higher and higher to the forefront. I'm proud of the Minister, too, for speaking with the federal Ministers, because I was never very comfortable with CMHC. I think it was over a 10-year period they were going to decline our social programming dollars down to nothing. I still think that we do have a case in saying it's premature. In fact, we're not even self-sufficient. I'll just conclude with that, Madam Chair. Mahsi cho.