Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It seems ludicrous that the government won't be flexible on this at all. There will be a surprise if the client were to say you aren't going to increase it to 90 percent on the scale, but reduce it to 75 because a notice did go out. I think the government can be flexible and they can say yes, you got the notice but, on second thought, we are just going to do the 75 percent for this year because we are still doing 100 percent for 2006-07, Mr. Speaker. I think this is short notice and expecting people to pay higher rents, purchase their homes and/or pay off all their arrears within a few months will have a serious impact on them. I would still like to know what the Minister's plan is for implementing this and taking care of our clients and try to get them to be homeowners, Mr. Speaker. I don't think this is the way to do it, by impacting their household budgets with a 30 percent increase to rent charges. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Kevin A. Menicoche on Question 351-15(3): Proposed Social Housing Rent Scale Increase
In the Legislative Assembly on February 9th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 351-15(3): Proposed Social Housing Rent Scale Increase
Question 351-15(3): Proposed Social Housing Rent Scale Increase
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 8th, 2005
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