An aspect that should concern the committee, Mr. Chairman, is that with some of this new information that's been presented, we now have been assured the information that we can be certain of is that 118 units are going to be built for the investments stated in the Minister's opening address, not 185 units as the Minister stated; 118. I'm concerned that the Minister is overselling the program and, again, when I'm asked to consider my vote for any allocation, I want to know what I'm getting for it. The Minister is not giving us straightforward information here compared to what he said in his opening statement and what he now says will be delivered. It's quite a discrepancy between 185 housing units and 118. Now I stand to be corrected; but from what I've learned so far this afternoon, we're not getting straight information. That is, again, one of the reasons why this committee has a chronic and growing concern with the corporation and with its programs and how it says it's going to go about getting them done. I'm going to park that one for now. At least I say now, I do have some information about what is actually achievable with the money that's requested. But I will still leave it on the record that I think the Minister is overselling the capacity and I'm going to be very vigilant and diligent about digging things out and confirming things.

Mr. Chairman, a couple of minutes left here, and I'd like to explore as well, along with a number of my colleagues, the mandate of the Housing Corporation. This is really an essential issue to what is before us, Mr. Chairman, because if we do not have the mandate and the objectives and the outcomes clearly defined and agreed upon in this Legislature and in our committee, why or how are we going to be able to make an approval, or decisions, or amendments on the information that is put forward to us. The mandate of the Housing Corporation and its goals and objectives changed dramatically at least a year ago when the transfer of the social housing portfolio went to Education, Culture and Employment, and it was right at that time. So we're talking about a year ago, Mr. Chairman, that we really expected to engage in creating, investigating, probing and coming up with this new mandate. That was easily a year ago, but these plans have been in place for some time, and among the documents that committee has collected and I've collected, is a progress report dated April 13, 2004, almost two years ago, entitled Redefining the Mandate of the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation. It's a four-and-a-half-page memo. It's very well put out, Mr. Chairman, that describes the specific task, the current status, other participants, issues and considerations, analysis and timelines. The proposed work plan in phase II suggests, Mr. Chairman, that the approval received by the Legislative Assembly would be by November of 2004, and implementation of administration of public housing portfolio subsidies by the new department would begin in April of 2005. So we're way off the beam here. When the Minister says that the new mandate...He said in his opening statement, "as you are aware during the past year the corporation has been involved in redefining its mandate." Well, this goes on for more than two years now, and if I have a question for the Minister it's to ask for some kind of an accounting or an explanation of why the corporation has missed by, it will be two years now, a plan that it put out two years ago. Can the Minister account for this amazing slippage in the commitment to the Assembly? Thank you.