Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have to wake up to reality here that we do have a housing crisis in the Northwest Territories and, at the pace that we are going, we cannot afford to put 2,000 units on the ground with the existing budget that we have as a government. We have to find unique ways of being able to accomplish that, with realizing that this is one of the ways that we can do that. I think that, as Members can note, you go to every community up and down the valley and see that there are people living in trailers, either here in Yellowknife or other places in the Territories. We have market housing, which basically are mobile homes that go into communities. At the end of the day, the product that we are going to buy, we want to ensure that it meets our standards and it meets the northern climate that it is going to be put in. So ensuring that we have the product that meets our needs, but also ensuring that the residents of the Northwest Territories will know that they can live in comfort with a roof over their heads, realizing that we have a crisis in the Northwest Territories. Thank you.
David Krutko on Question 158-15(4): Novel Housing Project
In the Legislative Assembly on October 18th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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Question 158-15(4): Novel Housing Project
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