Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Minister. The reason I raise this point again is to reaffirm that we still have communities that we're not meeting their basic needs, and by no means I'd like to restrict them by saying only nurses can get them or whatnot, or only lawyers or teachers or whatever the case may be as applicable. I wouldn't want us to think that. I mean, we have to say something. If SAOs, communities want them to do whatever they want, that's their business and that's not my business. Our business here is to make sure that we give them that type of resource so they can have that opportunity. Not to pick on my good colleague from Tu Nedhe, but I know a few of the units are empty there and you're saying that we've got for sale signs on there and we're having people call us. Well what's stopping us from selling? Now we've heard the song about people are calling us to buy them. I don't want to sound hostile or anything, but let's just sell these darn things if no one wants to rent them. Why are we holding on to them?
I guess in that respect, because, of course, time is running short, I'll also ask this question, which is again I stress not to pick on my good colleague, I'm sure they need those seven units, but if we have not all five units used at this time, then why would we continue to put two more units into Resolution and why wouldn't we consider another community that is not even on this list? So really what I am getting at is a share the wealth kind of perspective. I'm not trying to take them away from Resolution by any means. I want to make that clear to everyone and even make eye contact with my colleague. I hope he knows I mean that in the best way, he's probably giving me a little scowl at this time. But the issue is we've got units in communities that aren't even being used at this time. You can pick any community you want, but if we've got them sitting there empty now, why are we putting more in there when we've got communities that don't have them? Really, that's the point. I just had to pick someone to put a name and a face to.
So the issue really is maybe we need to go back. Can I get a commitment from you to go back and evaluate at this time? Maybe we need a market housing initiative in the 2006-07 budget that can help spread some of this gap, but I don't want to be putting more modular homes into communities that are already sitting empty. No offence to the Minister, but if people are banging on our door and wanting to buy them, then sell the darn things because, as I see it, we are subsidizing either full houses or we're certainly subsidizing empty houses and I would sleep better at night by feeling good that people are sleeping in them, rather than us trying to heat them and let them freeze up or whatnot on their own, sitting empty, and we'll pay a certain premium if we run into the problems with them being empty.
So I apologize if my good Member on this side of the House is worried I was speaking on his community, and by no means I was. I'm just firmly against that if we're putting these continually into communities and they are not being used, we should be asking ourselves why do we continue to do this when we have communities out there that are getting nothing. I can't look them in the eye and say we'd rather have empty units in this community rather than give you a chance. So any thoughts from the Minister? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.