Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the budget address it says, “Canada has committed to invest a further $50 million in the construction of new social housing over the next two years.” My questions are for the Minister of housing. We do have some housing issues in the Northwest Territories. But whether you go to places like Fort Liard and see housing packages sitting on people’s front lawns, which lead one to believe that we have trouble finding a contractor to build the houses, or whether you go to the small communities where we have no housing for teachers and nurses, or whether you go to communities where there’s new homeownership units built but nobody subscribes to that, there’s nobody moving into them. There are places where we say we have housing issues, but there’s nobody on the waiting list for public housing.

I’d like to ask the Minister of Housing where this government’s focus and attention is going to be on with any new housing dollar; or is the federal money going to be highly prescribed exactly what we can do with that money; or can we tailor the program to the needs of the Northwest Territories?