Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think the Minister gets the point that I've been trying to make, and that is that I think it's important that everything is looked at prior to $450,000 of public money going into a project that, you know, whether or not it's supposed to be a seniors' complex or not is anybody's best guess right now because I don't think the Minister even knows that. I'll leave that there, Mr. Chairman, if I could.

I don't want to have to get back on the list, so I'm going to switch gears here a little bit and talk about something that's actually been the topic of discussion here, the Novel housing proposal with ATCO Structures. I'm in the same mind as my colleague, Mrs. Groenewegen, on this. I'm supportive of the overall concept and what it means in terms of housing and the availability of housing here in the Northwest Territories. But just for the record -- and I know the Minister doesn't have to answer this and I'm just going to comment on this -- I agree wholeheartedly with my

colleagues that any and every business opportunity that is available to northern businesses has to be taken. When you're talking about a project of the magnitude of what's being proposed, I think it's absolutely necessary that the government go out there and try to drum up as much business and support for this project as it can and where you're going to get that support is from the business community. I'd encourage you to do that.

The other thing I want to mention about this project is, and it's similar to that of the seniors' complex, in that the seniors' complexes get built in communities and nobody ever moves into them. I'm glad to hear that there are some residents in some of them now, but I think the Housing Corporation has to go out there and try to identify people who are going to purchase these units and people who are going to move into them and try to make that distinction of what's going to be a homeownership unit and what's going to end up being public housing. I think that, to me, is a very important aspect of this. It can't be overlooked. The earlier that the Housing Corporation or agents of the Housing Corporation can get out there into all the communities where these units are going to be located, and start identifying family X, Y and Z that are going to be able to purchase these units, the better off you'll be in the long run. I think that work has to start almost immediately, and that's how that project's going to be sold.

I don't have as much reservation on it as some of my colleagues. I'm in support of it. I've seen the conceptual design of it. I've been in the factory in Calgary when we were down there for an oil and gas conference. I've seen the finished product, and I do think that it will address the housing shortage in the near term and in the long term here in the Northwest Territories. So I'm encouraged by what I see there, but again, it's with some caution here that we have to go about this and make sure we do all of our homework at the front end so that we don't get the big nightmare at the end. I'd like to end with that, Mr. Chairman. Thank you very much.