Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, how does the owner determine a deficiency which the contractor might not agree with that? How do you get a qualified person to say, well, this is a deficiency, so please come back? You still have a warranty on this house. The contractor may be out of the country in terms of the Northwest Territories, maybe in southern Canada. If they pay their way back here, they are going to kick and scream all the way back to that community. How does the Housing Corporation get the contractor to come back and honour that commitment, agreement, or quality of work? We shouldn't use him at all, again, in terms of any type of work in the future because they will have to go the community contractor in the community to finish the work. That is where, Mr. Chair, that some of the contractors in the community say we have to come up and clean up their work. That kind of discussion we are having. I just want to make it very clear that the owners need to really know what they are signing off in terms of just walking around the building and say yes. They need to really understand. I hope that Housing provides that type of education for the homeowners when they sign on. It may seem that they are not, but I think they are. But there are a lot of complaints about that, so I want to see how he could address that. There is lots of hearsay and all that stuff. There are a lot of stuff that is questionable even for some of the contractors coming, because it is cold in October and November. They want to get out right away. It is freezing up, so there is certainly a different process for us in the communities that don't have an all-weather road. We are on a sort of a rush building project here. That is what I have for the Minister, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
Norman Yakeleya on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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