Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My questions are going to be directed to the Honourable David Krutko, Minister of Housing, with respect to the Affordable Housing Strategy that's going to be rolling out in the next three years. Having worked here and lived here in Yellowknife for quite a number of years myself, I just don't really see the real need for more public housing in Yellowknife because the public housing units here, there are not many people pounding on their doors or phoning their MLAs everyday, as they are in the smaller communities, to raise public housing issues and the need for public housing. I understand that Yellowknife is going to be receiving 62 units out of this Affordable Housing Strategy. Many of those are going to be public housing units and that at $180,000 per unit, that's just over $11 million that the government is going to be putting into their Affordable Housing Strategy here in Yellowknife, which has a thriving housing market, which has a lot of people employed and making good money, which has a lot of financial institutions willing to lend out money even to people in the lower income bracket. I think that $11 million

could be spent where it is better needed in the smaller communities, or it could go into a transient centre, a treatment centre or even a women's shelter here in Yellowknife where it would be well received. Have they really looked at why they want to spend $11 million on affordable housing in Yellowknife where there is lots of housing, Mr. Speaker? Thank you.