Thank you, Mr. Braden. Next I have Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to ask a question of the Minister. When does the current lease expire at Northern United Place for the college here in Yellowknife? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It expires this summer. We're in the process of working to renew that for five years.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So that will be for an additional five years from this summer and the last time the lease was let it was for how long? What's expiring this summer, what was the length of the period?

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe that the current lease was a five-year lease. If memory serves me right, that will be 10 years that we've been in there. I think it was five plus five was the initial lease, but we can confirm that and get the information to the Member. So yes, we are looking at extending the lease to 2012.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So the plan, I guess in a perfect world, would be to have a stand-alone college campus in Yellowknife by 2012. Is that correct?

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In a perfect world.

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Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you.

Thank you. We're on page 8-29, activity summary, advanced education and careers, grants and contributions, contributions, total $32.118 million.

Total grants and contributions, $32.118 million.

Can we now turn to page 8-32 and 8-33, activity summary, income security, operations expenditure summary, $66.119 million. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a couple of questions on this page. The first one is to do with income security review. Is that okay? Do I have the microphone?

Yes, you do.

Okay. The income security review, and I'd like to get an update on that. The second thing is in the latest meeting I've been in in our community of Yellowknife I learned that since the housing support moved as an income security from Housing to ECE, that there have been three times as much complaints being filed to the rental office. I don't know what exactly the reasons are, but there are lots of people who are having a hard time with this new program. So I need to put this on record and tell the Minister that this program transfer is still on a very thin leg and the committee is watching this. I know the Minister is on record and in various places have been very firm that this is the right way to go, but we've heard concerns about this in terms of staff training and staff readiness and concentration of work into regional offices where previously the work was able to be done in communities. In the city of Yellowknife I think it could be that a lot of information that was not considered as income previously or for whatever reason, a lot of our people who are in public housing or housing support program are being either evicted or being reviewed or they're going through a hard time. So I need to ask the Minister to give me a commitment to review this situation and get back to me. Maybe I'll leave it at that and I have a couple of more questions on this page. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In terms of the income security review, there's a letter coming to the Standing Committee on Social Programs requesting an opportunity to get together to bring that committee up to date with where we are in the process. So I'm hoping that before the end of session we will be able to get together and go through that.

In terms of issues, if Members have issues around social housing, I would be happy to get the details and then, in concert with Premier Handley who is the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, review the situations and make sure that we are in fact being responsive, because that is our goal. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.