Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the people in the communities, when they look at housing, they look at it as almost a sacred cow in terms of homes that were discussed many years ago, and now housing has a new mandate and a new approach to it. The concept of having homeownership in communities is fairly new and fairly complex. Some people are still stuck in that; providing homes for them. The federal government is slowly getting out of housing.

So I am saying that in designing programs, for some it takes more than two years and some just want a home. Some of them just want to live in a home. They want to know the program. It is a new concept in terms of bringing homeownership to them and they are having some difficulties of owning a home. I am maybe treading on some sensitive areas or issues such as the oral history of how houses were introduced into the communities through the treaty negotiation process or through some other policies of the federal government. There are still people in my region that still talk about how they were enticed to get off the land and live in a community. The government said you could have this house for as long as you want for a certain amount of money. There are still old-timers talking about that in my communities down the Mackenzie Valley. That, for them, is sacred.

I know the issue is complex. For us younger people, it might be different. For the old-timers, the discussions of oral history passed on is sacred to them. That is where they are getting confused. So in saying that, is there a special program for the seniors anywhere that they know that their place will be looked after, they have a special program just for them? For other people, it's okay, but for the old people that some receive letters saying that their rent is going to increase, they got scared. So they come back and say we were told this a long time ago, how come they are doing this now? Then they get on the government.

Madam Chair, that's something that for us it's okay, for young people, to understand some of the terms and words they use when writing, but the elders rely solely on the oral. No matter how many times you tell them, they still have something in their mind that says this is what we were told. The chiefs were pretty strong when they made agreements. Not like today, our agreements aren't very strong. But for them, the elders were pretty strong and it's pretty sacred. I think if we had something like that with some kind of program, even if you could think about grandfathering some of the homes of the elders, the lands that they have. With the new regulations you have around land development, it's too much for the elders. It's a lot of stress on them. I want to ask the Minister what he considers in terms of his new mandate, consultation, and what we have here in his opening comments and remarks on programs. You already mention in here consideration for the seniors. You call them seniors and in my community, we call them elders. Even that is different. So I want to see if you would give some consideration to our elders in our communities on some of these programs before you go full blast with some of the programs you will be implementing. Thank you.