Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the policy was put in place in the 12th Assembly. The 12th Assembly to where we are today in the 15th, a lot of circumstances have changed. In the 12th Assembly, we were part of Nunavut. The whole intention of this policy was to ensure that seniors in social housing were not to pay rent. The majority of our clients at that time were in the smaller communities, which made up the majority of the Members in this House. I think we also have to realize that the policy was there with good intentions, but the cause of some circumstances of the changing economy in the Northwest Territories, the problem seemed to originate out of communities where there is a market for housing. I think because of that situation, we are going to have to look at how the means tests are being done. Right now, the means test is based on income. There is nothing there that looks at an asset the individual may own. Because of the process we have in place, the Department of Education and ourselves have made a unilateral decision that we will transfer the subsidy that we provide to all of our clients, a subsidy of $30 million, to operate our social housing stock in the Northwest Territories. The Department of Education will be able to ensure that we are being fair to the people who live in those units, but, more importantly, those dollars that they receive are to pay for the operation of our units. That decision has been made.
We all know the Income Security Program we have in place; there has to be review of that in the next six months. So we are in the process of doing that and bringing forward to the Members to review that program to ensure that it's fair, it's transparent and problems like that would be caught during that review. Thank you.