Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to clear up a point. The individual who ends up in this Supported Lease Program will have a few options. They lease the unit; they can go to the bank and purchase it outright, or just continue to rent the unit. You aren't kicked out of the unit. They are able to apply for subsidies under the Social Assistance Program, so there is that arrangement there also with regard to looking at their core needs.
Like you say, Mr. Yakeleya, it's important to work with the First Nations' organizations. We have been working with the AFN, and everybody saw on the television with regard to what happened in Kelowna. There are still a lot of commitments to improve the way we deal with aboriginal people in housing and also give aboriginal people more say on how housing issues will be dealt with in the country, as well as aboriginal organizations taking ownership of housing. I have been working with Billy Erasmus and his people, along with us, and how we can do a better job to deliver housing in the Northwest Territories, especially for First Nations people. I do sympathize with you. I grew up in McPherson. I did see where individuals owned their own homes, they had their own lands and lots, and then social housing came down the road and now they don't have anything to call their own today. We want to change that mindset and make people have pride with regard to owning a home and owning something that's theirs, and not be stuck in a social housing unit for their whole life. It is costing us roughly, for someone going into social housing and living their whole life in social housing, it's costing us roughly $1 million. There is a lot of money expended for people to be in social housing.
Again, through this program, we are hoping to improve that and have the flexibility in here to allow people to become homeowners and not get around the barriers that we face with regard to access bank financing, mortgages or taking that giant leap to become homeowners. Thank you.