Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Minister for not running the clock out because I know he'd be very capable of doing that if he wanted to. Mr. Chairman, one other question, it has to do with the rent scale and it has to do with seniors. I mean, I am very supportive of seniors; they've worked hard, they've contributed to our communities, I do believe they deserve a break. However, when we talk about housing in the context of a crisis in the Northwest Territories, I want to know what's happening with the housing rent scale for
seniors. Right now, as the system stands, and I do not begrudge any senior taking advantage of this program, as a matter of fact, I'm almost 50 and in 10 years I'm going to be 60 and if the government still has this program out there where anybody, regardless of income or means or pension or anything else, can get free housing with the NWT, I'm sure you're going to see...Baby boomers are coming up, you're going to see a lot of uptake. As a matter of fact, we do see it happening now and, like I said, these 12 seniors' duplexes that have just come up in Hay River are very nice little two-bedroom duplexes, but you have to understand there is no means test applied. So in fact, anybody 60 years or older can apply to live in there and if they're accepted, they get it. Now I just don't know how we reconcile that kind of support with what we keep calling the overcrowding and the severe shortage of housing. I don't know how we reconcile that kind of investment in seniors' units that we give for free regardless. It doesn't matter if you sold your house to move in there; it doesn't matter if you've got a government pension; it just doesn't matter. You are in for free housing. Now, like I said, the people who are taking it up I absolutely understand why they're doing it. I mean, it would be seriously tempting for anybody who could get a deal like that to take it. It's not their fault. The government is offering it; they're just stepping into that opportunity. But how do we rationalize that with our other demands on housing? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.