Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again, it's based on household income and the size of the family. If you have a family with six people or seven people, it's based on the ability of that family to maintain themselves, but also maintain a mortgage. So there are also things that are looked at with regard to how you determine the evaluation. Also, regarding the income support system, it again is based on where these units are being put in place. A lot of communities, where you're putting $300,000 into a community, your threshold numbers are somewhere in the range of $50,000 or $60,000. In order for that family to maintain a mortgage, they have to be able to meet the minimums which are based on the 30 percent expenditures with regard to household core need. If the Member would like, I have provided him with information and if he would like more information, I can get it to him.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Final supplementary, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can see we're slowly getting somewhere, like an iceberg here moving along the great divide. But, Mr. Speaker, let me put $72,000 into real dollars. Mr. Speaker, if I took home $72,000 in a pay cheque, that means I would have made over $105,000 that year. This is grantable money of $72,000. That's a lot of money that's tax free, straight across. As far as I'm concerned, we still haven't heard the details and we have five more days of this session to go. I'm sure we'll hear it by the end of it. Mr. Speaker, what were the exact details of this? What did they have for rental income? How many were in this family? Justify $72,000 for one family. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Krutko.

Mr. Speaker, the Member is getting down to a pretty detailed answer so I'll take that as notice and get the information back to the Member if he wants to.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The Minister has taken the question as notice. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Villeneuve.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I don't know. I'm tempted to stay on this housing issue, but we'll just leave it to rest for now. My question is to the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs with respect to the new taxation year and new assessment year. More interest has accumulated. Letters have gone out to seizure of private property. Anxiety is raised in the communities again with all these registered mails that have gone out. I'm just wondering if the Minister can just let this House know if any progress in finding a resolution to these outstanding property tax issues and arrears and the assessment process has been carried forth from our last discussion in the last session about this issue. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. The honourable Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member is asking progress over property assessment and verification of property titles. That's something we haven't been able to do up to now. We intend to go into the communities of Fort Providence, Fort Liard and also Fort Resolution this summer. We intended to have our people do an assessment and verification of those communities last year, however, a number of the chiefs representing those communities asked us to hold off. In Fort Providence, we've had a face-to-face meeting with the leadership there. They have indicated they want to have a discussion and a workshop on how assessments are done and how titles are verified. We're committed to doing that. We plan to do that this summer. So we've been able to set up or are in the process of setting up a date to go in the community and do that. In the situation of Fort Resolution, however, we haven't done that and we would like to be able to do that. We will correspond with the leadership over the summer or over the next while with the intention of doing it this summer. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to the Minister for that replay because that was basically the basis of my next question. I think he must have been reading my notes or something. It's good that the Minister is initiating some kind of a working group to go and visit these communities and inform them and explain to them what property assessment and taxation means and how it relates to their taxation bills and their assessment notices and community services. I wanted to know if the Minister would entertain the idea of ensuring that this working group consists of frontline workers. Not executive assistants, not the Minister, not his deputies, but actual frontline assessors who know exactly what it's all about because that's their profession; that they would be part of this working group that would see the community workshops take place and clarify a lot of this anxiety that people feel. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think I can certainly relate to the concern that the Member is raising. We intend to send our frontline workers to do the assessments in the communities, to verify the titles, to explain the process to the leadership. However, I think it would warrant a follow-up by myself and some of my staff and maybe members of the Department of Finance to go in also and talk about the different options that are causing some roadblocks or some concern to the aboriginal governments in the communities, and maybe look at different options that might be out there on how to accommodate the issues that are coming forth as a result of the land issues around land claim and self-government negotiations. I think that I would certainly agree with the Member. The discussions with the community has to be twofold; first of all with our staff, our technical and lands people, followed up by a political meeting with all of the leadership once we are all clear on what the process is and what we can do in terms of the next steps. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I guess my assumption would be safe to tell the general rate paying public that in these communities that have all of these accumulated arrears for their assessments that I feel are on the high end, this issue is going to be resolved within this taxation year. I hope I don't have to bring it up next year and the year after. I just want to ask the Minister if he is committed to seeing that this issue is going to be done over the summer. We have all summer to do some workshops and everything. People are usually home. It is a good time for assessors to do stretch tape and whatnot. I just want the Minister to commit to the people and say it is going to get done and we are working on it and we look forward to seeing some closure to it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. McLeod.

Mr. Speaker, this is an issue that has been ongoing for some time. We have been very determined to move forward on some of these issues that are being raised in terms of verification of titles and the amounts being assessed for different properties. Our staff has indicated that we have been ready to go into the community for some time. I will commit to the Member that we fully intend to go this summer. We would like to go this summer. We would like to work with the Member and set up some meetings and open up that line of communication and get all of this work done and some of these issues out of the way. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question today is for the Minister of Health and Social Services. Could you inform this House as to the status of the RFP contract that provides security for the Inuvik Regional Hospital? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I understand it has been out for RFP, but I am not sure when it is closed or if they have been successful. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My understanding is that it hasn't even gone out to tender yet or for an RFP, because I have had some concerns from some constituents living up there that they haven't seen it yet. They are waiting for it. My understanding is that it is being awarded or given to the same company that is doing it now. This looks like backdoor sole sourcing. Would the Minister provide me a reason for this?