Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Today, too, I would like to get straight to work and give government some of my thoughts that I received as I went on my campaign trail, Mr. Speaker, and one of them is the transfer of the housing subsidy to the Education, Culture and Employment department that occurred last term, Mr. Speaker. I believe that was a mistake to transfer this program. We had changed how we deliver housing to not delivering housing now, Mr. Speaker. Right now we have good, hard-working people who are now in arrears. Once it was affordable and bearable for them to make five or six hundred dollar a month payments, and they made it, Mr. Speaker; but now, where we are now assessing them through full market rates and we're charging them 15, 16 hundred dollars a month, Mr. Speaker, that might work for large centres, but it does not work for small communities like Jean Marie, grannie from Nahanni. It's just not working there. It doesn't make sense to have these absorbent prices for market rates.

As well as another significant change, Mr. Speaker, is that elders and our low income people are not eligible for houses anymore and that's wrong and that's a

fundamental shift from us, as a government, being able to help and benefit our people. I'd like this government to address that, and think about that and have some solution for this House for the next sitting in November, Mr. Speaker.

What the change has really done there, Mr. Speaker, is the changes have made our lives more cumbersome for our people, that we have created more of a bureaucracy in the Housing Corporation with difficult to interpret guidelines and procedures. People are really frustrated, Mr. Speaker, and people are really falling behind, and it's really having an impact on their lives, and the lives of their family and the lives of their communities because they are the backbone of our North and I believe we should stand behind them 100 percent, Mr. Speaker. Mahsi cho.

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