Thank you, Madam Chair. I am just going to go back to sort of follow what Mr. Braden is talking about. The Minister indicated that we are looking at probably 500 houses over the next three years, pending the federal government's funding. I am just wondering, as Mr. Braden pointed out earlier, are we going to continue to deliver these houses for the next three years, as the Minister indicated? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, at our present allocation for housing, we deliver roughly about 118 houses using our budget exclusively. The additional units use the federal funding, is key. But again, I do have faith in the federal system that we have had the legislation passed. We have had dollars identified which is $1.6 billion. Out of that, CMHC has devised a way to allocate, and through the provincial-territorial housing Ministers, I believe we have had support from our colleagues in the provincial and also federal levels. I think, because I feel comfortable that we will get some positive results, but again, if we don't get it, we will be delivering roughly about 118 houses. The goal is for 185. That is what we are hoping to deliver this year. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have just one last one here. How soon will the Minister meet with the Honourable Diane Finley in regards to the funding? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Madam Chair. As soon as possible. As soon as I can get a phone number, give her a call, congratulate her and see how soon we can meet. So ASAP.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just for clarification in regard to the 73 public housing replacement

units. I have 185. I think for clarification, if you replace 73 public housing units, that is not really addressing some of the housing shortage. How can I rephrase the question? Seventy-three replacement units; will those be new units over and above the 185? I just need clarification. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, as we all know, we do have an aging public housing stock. We do have to replace it. As you know, the funding that we have will be transferring to Education. There is a declining amount over the next number of years which will climb to zero. We have really lost our O and M to operate a lot of our public housing units. The only way we feel that we can be able to continue that is to build more energy-efficient and multi-unit construction and phase out units that are not as energy-efficient and very expensive to operate.

Also, there is a question about land and land availability in a lot of communities. We will have to reprofile a lot of these lands that are there to be able to use them for different types of construction. Again, we are looking at that. Again, we do have to replace a lot of our public housing units which basically have exceeded their usage. We do have to reallocate a lot of our O and M, so that is the reason that we are looking at replacement and finding more energy-efficient housing and also making them more energy-efficient by multi-constructed facilities. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In regard to the $4.889 million emergency fund repair programs, what are some of the stipulations as to these people having a requirement to access this fund? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, as you know, we are revising our power by allocation. Right now, we have some 14 programs we do deliver. We are trying to consolidate them down to five areas. Because of the changing delivery of our programs, we are hoping it is more user-friendly and people would be able to have better access. In regards to the $4.888 million, it is application based and people will have to come forward, fill out the applications and have it approved based on the regional and community allocations. That is the process we presently use. Again, we are hoping with this change, it will make it more user friendly for people to access programs and make them simpler to understand and don't have as many restrictions as we presently have. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister give us an idea of what you mean by user friendly for access of funds? Is there going to be an easier access for the people? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, we have heard a lot of concerns over the years from Members in this House and people in the public about how programs have basically been delivered. You heard a concern here this morning about a person getting a once-in-a-lifetime application for clients for housing and how we are able to work around this, but, presently, I mentioned, we provide something like 14 to 19 different types of programs. We are trying to basically consolidate into five general areas. I think that, by doing that, it will simplify the process for one thing, but also allow more flexibility to mix and match different programs which, right now, you have to apply on each one. Right now, we are hoping, by simplifying the program, you only have to apply in five different areas than actually having to go to every application or program that is out there. With that, we are looking forward to seeing this program being rolled out, but also seeing that we will find a system that is more user friendly to our clients. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just one last question here for the Minister in regard to the corporation plan to invest 10.439 in modernizing and upgrading the rental stock. Can he give us an example of what he means by that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, we do what we call MNIs in communities, which are major and minor repairs to most of our public stock. It is where a large portion of this is to basically do repairs to keep our houses in certain conditions to make sure that they are not falling below certain standards. So those are basically repair programs that are done annually by the housing authority. The money has been identified for all of the communities to do repairs on their housing stock. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Next I have Ms. Lee.