Thank you. Just more on the same topic.
Earlier I had indicated, in opening comments on the Housing Corporation budget, that I thought it was very important that the Housing Corporation focuses its attention on some seniors’ home ownership housing repairs. The care and the contributing assistance for residential enhancement is likely the area where these repairs would fit in.
I’m not sure. Unless the individuals are eligible for federal programs — CMHC repair program — then my assumption is that the majority of the money will come from this $742,000. I can say that even in a part of the one region, we could probably consume a lot of this money.
In Fort Resolution we’ve got 60 elders’ households, and in Lutselk’e we’ve got 25 elder households. The majority of them are home ownership units. The majority of them are units that were built with the assistance of the NWT Housing Corporation, which is great. However, now the units will start to slowly deteriorate. Unless we stop it now and put money into those programs, those seniors will lose their ability to maintain home ownership.
So I, too, am asking the question: why such a drastic cut? What was the reason or the logic, I suppose, for making them cut 50 in this area? Thank you.