Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member makes a very good point. There are companies that can build stick-built homes in the Northwest Territories and we could have chosen that approach, but it would have been very difficult. You wouldn't get stick-built homes for $130,000 in communities. So if it cost $300,000
to put a stick-built home in a community and you need to, on a cost-recovery basis, get the money back for these 22 homes, you would have been charging a rent...We already know $1,300 is difficult. I can't imagine the teachers and nurses and professionals in the communities coming up with $2,000 plus for rent and that's what would have happened, I believe, with stick-built homes. Can mobile homes be manufactured in the North in the future? I believe they can. I am hoping our government will work with anybody who is interested in looking at this business.
We do have to make sure that it's a viable one, but we are certainly willing to consider business plans and work with anybody who has this in mind. I certainly think that would be a positive step going forward. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.