Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to follow up on the questions I had asked earlier of the Minister, but the Minister had answered those questions. However, by the time he answered those questions, my 10 minutes were up, so I just want to follow up on that again.

Madam Chair, I cannot tell you how disappointed I am with this Minister and his answers about some really valid questions that we had asked. I could tell you that not only as the Member for Range Lake but as a committee Chair, this tender for 22 mobile homes and exempting the BIP came as a complete surprise to us. It was suggested to us at the committee meeting as something that was an idea. I have just surveyed committee Members and none of the committee Members thought that this had become as much as a permanent thing or real thing or real happening until we saw the ad. In fact, when I was talking to the Minister about this, I was then told that this was decided by the previous Assembly. So that should tell me that it was already decided, but that was not communicated. I think the evidence is in our committee report on pages when it's speaking about our concerns. In fact, later on we will be making a motion to the effect that we think this thing should be looked into more. So that's one thing.

I think if the Minister wants to have this kind of working relationship with the committee, I'm prepared to act accordingly. I really thought that he had good intentions and goodwill, and that he respected the role of standing committee and the Members of this side in terms of having input and shaping the policy issues. But the way the Minister has...Not only how we came to learn about this thing, which was in the media, then I was trying to give the Minister a chance to explain and his 10 minutes of answer was completely unacceptable. He's saying I went up and down the valley, this is what everybody wants, we have to create houses and this is how we're going to do it. In fact, he even said maybe the Members don't understand. Well I can tell the Minister that I can tell you that there are teachers who have been bunked up in a house on the next street to mine for about the past 10 years now. I don't need the housing Minister telling me that we don't have a housing problem in Yellowknife, and I don't need the housing Minister telling me that this is the only way we're going to solve the housing problem in the Territories, and that is by ordering 22 mobile homes and totally ignoring a government policy. We could just call a 1-800 number to Las Vegas and order 1,000 mobile homes if that's how we want to solve our housing problem.

I am really sick and tired of arguing about the BIP. We have a BIP office. We pay money for people to keep our BIP office. We pay money to have a web site. We require companies to come and register because it's a government policy. But apparently it's a government policy the government can just ignore. Then you ask the Minister what's the evidence that this was going to cost more money. If the Minister really believes that the only way -- the Minister and the Cabinet. I'm putting responsibility on the Cabinet, too -- if the Cabinet decides that this is the only way to go, that the BIP costs us too much. For a construction project like the jail they wanted to exempt the BIP and we argued for three years about whether that should be done or not. If the Cabinet decides that the only way we're going to provide housing for the next four years is to get rid of BIP, then they should stand up and say that. Have the balls to do that.

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