Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as I stated from an earlier question with regard to reviewing our mandate and looking at the policies and procedures and guidelines that we follow, we can look at an appeals process. But you have to realize that the business we're in, we -- especially talking about people's rents or whatever -- do have to follow the Residential Tenancies Act because that's the legislation that governs the housing business in the Northwest Territories. We do have to abide by that act. If you're talking about programs and housing in regard to the construction or faulty construction of these units, I think we have increased the amount of inspections we do on our job sites. Also we ensure that the client has to be aware that they have to ensure that when they sign documentation or sign off the approval to move into a unit before it's concluded, it's also buyer beware. Again, the whole area of liability insurance has to be looked at, but we have to ensure that the people who do these contracts have the insurance liability and coverage that should go with it. Like you say, what I've found since I've been here is that people are coming to you with complaints that have been filed for five to eight years and they're still out there with people complaining about them and no one has taken a close look to see exactly what the problem is or to track down the contractor or to figure out when that contract was done. Again, there has to be some sort of a process, but you can't wait five to eight years to come forward with an issue and have it unresolved. Again, like I stated, we are reviewing the mandate of the corporation and this is something we'll look at.
I'd also like to make the Members aware that if you're talking a major increase in the structure of an organization for which there's a cost associated, where do those costs come from? We heard that the amount of money we spent in an organization, the $30 million that's going to get transferred over. So out of $100 million budget we're now going to be dealing with $70 million. We have to see what the financial implications are of doing this.
The other issue you touched on was affirmative action. I think it's important that we do look at our affirmative action statistics to make sure we're following the affirmative action policy, but as a corporation we do have in excess of 65 percent in the corporation's headquarters staff who are classified as affirmative action. In our communities, through our LHOs, we're up to 85 percent. That shows we have put a major emphasis in ensuring we have followed the affirmative action policy. Also, a lot of our business is done through regional offices, through our local housing authorities, so that's where the bulk of the people are. But we do have, like I stated, 65 percent of people at headquarters who are classified under affirmative action and 85 percent at our local housing authorities. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.