Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I fully support this motion. Mr. Speaker, looking at the housing needs survey in the communities, visiting the people in the communities and looking at the conditions of housing and seeing where the federal government's obligations to our people are, in terms of giving us affordable housing in our communities and giving us places where we can stay that don't run into many problems such as our honourable Member for Nahendeh mentioned about mould. Some of our houses in our communities are in bad shape. Hopefully, this motion will give the Minister some good support to go to the federal government and have a really good discussion with them in terms of having our funding increased. Even if this government had enough funding to increase housing, I look at this report, Mr. Speaker, and there are some people who don't have running water in our communities. In this day and age, that's a crying shame, as I've always said. In this day and age there are 240 people that don't have running water. That's what we have to do to make a difference in their lives in the community. That's what we have to do.

There are some people that don't even have indoor sinks and basements at home, let alone indoor toilets that we take for granted. This is why, Mr. Speaker, I fully support this motion that gives some ammunition for the Minister and gets what we have to do to make sure that we make a difference in our people's lives. Tell our people tomorrow who don't have running water what we have done for them. We talk about other issues. People across the Northwest Territories who don't have baths or showers; that's 172 people. There are no kitchen sinks for 156 people. There are a lot of numbers here. There are 1,728 people who need major repairs on their houses. Winter's coming.