Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Well, I'm speaking more to public housing units as opposed to any type of private homeownership plan that we may have set out. But the fact remains that if we have caution about they can't use a woodstove or pellet stove safely, then maybe we should be questioning should we be putting them in the house by themselves, if that's an issue.
I see this as a challenge but also an opportunity, Mr. Chairman, because if we could put a pellet stove in all of our social housing units, we're either paying for pellets or we're paying for oil, but we're paying for something. Right now the trend seems to be leaning towards, and a foreseeable trend for quite some time, that pellets will be significantly cheaper. What I'm really getting at is the advantage of maintaining a house at a more reasonable cost, and, by the way, we're the ones maintaining the cost because, yet again, we either pay for pellets or we pay for the oil.
If it's a safety issue then, as I see it, all we need to do is sit down with somebody to make sure we go through them. Even you have said, Mr. Minister, in the context of pellet stoves, they are quite safe. I've lived up here almost 30 years and I know a lot of people are extremely familiar around woodstoves. If I may say personally, even my one year old knows how to walk safely around a woodstove. What I'm getting at is, yes, there are inherent risks in everything, but reasonably, I guess, if we're looking at trying to do business better, I don't think it's too much to ask and I'd like to see it as a policy shift that we change the way we do business in social housing. Thank you.