Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In our duties as MLAs, we have to listen to the people that elect us and what we are hearing now, and I am sure a lot of us on this side are hearing, is that the transfer of administration of housing assessments from the Housing Corporation to ECE is definitely not working, Mr. Speaker. We are getting feedback from the constituents that this is not working for them. It's not working for the LHOs and I am sure it's not working for ECE, through no fault of their own. I am sure the offices have 16 or 17 other subsidy programs to deal with without putting their full attention to the assessments for housing tenants. It's causing them a lot of grief, Mr. Speaker, to have to continually go back and forth and have to wait three weeks for their assessment.
A good example is, I was up in Inuvik this weekend and spoke to another tenant of the local housing authority. They said the same thing. They have to wait three weeks to get their assessments done. This is not right, Mr. Speaker. This is a program that's definitely not working. The government wants to have one-stop shopping, but I think the one-stop shopping is for the employees of the government, not the tenants. It's a shame, Mr. Speaker, that they have to go back and forth and are told to wait.
Local housing authorities, I am aware, are giving out more termination notices than they ever had to before, because the money is just not coming from ECE on time. Mr. Speaker, this government has to be big and admit to themselves, and to everyone, that this program is not working. They have to be big enough to admit they made a mistake and maybe it's time to go back to the way it was before, which worked for everyone. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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