Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is a motion that I was more than happy to bring forward. The transfer over to ECE has had an effect on a lot of housing tenants. I think when we were up in Sachs Harbour we were spoken to by a lady that had to fax her information to the Education, Culture and Employment office in Inuvik and wait for it to come back. We're heard many stories, Mr. Speaker, from tenants that are having trouble with this new program. The government likes to say that they're having one-stop shopping and I challenge that, because I think, Mr. Speaker, that it may be easier on the employees of ECE to have everyone there, but they're having trouble getting a lot of this information back to the housing authorities on time. It's affecting the housing authorities' ability to do their business. When the Housing Corporation looked after the money, it was put in their accounts on a quarterly basis and that gave them the ability to do all the work that's required. I'm not sure what the vacancy rate is on some of these units. It's just been a real problem, Mr. Speaker, to a lot of housing tenants; not only housing tenants, it's affecting some of the housing authorities. Some of the Members have spoken to it in the past in some of their Members' statements and in some of the questions.
So I think, Mr. Speaker, with this motion what we're hoping to do is ask the government to transfer the responsibility back to the NWT Housing Corporation and the $35 million along with it, and allow the local housing authorities to do a job that they've been doing for years and years, and they've been doing it well, Mr. Speaker. It's an easier process for the tenants and we have to listen to what the constituents are telling us. I'm not sure how it is with the transfer over to ECE, if they've been trained well enough; it doesn't seem to be. Tenants are having to wait three weeks to have their assessment done. A lot of people that have never been in arrears before are in arrears because of the lateness of the assessments getting back over to the housing authorities. So what we're asking today, Mr. Speaker, if for this government to big enough to realize that this is a program that's not working, and be big enough to say that we'll listen to the constituents, we'll listen to the residents on this one, and we'll move it back to the responsibility of the NWT Housing Corporation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.