I can say yes to all of the above. The Member has raised a number of issues that have certainly come to my attention since taking on the position of Housing Minister. We’re trying to look at the issue of packages to the communities that have not been completed due to shortage of contractors, programs that are certainly not meeting some of the clients that should be accessing the housing packages. We’re looking at the issue of deferred maintenance on public housing. All these issues we would like to bring
forward to have a discussion with committee. We will be drafting a letter to request time to sit in front of committee and look at some of the proposed changes we would like to suggest.
The new federal money, question number two, is an area that we’re really working hard to get a handle on. We certainly have some challenges in front of us. Good challenges, I should add, because we have some resources that we were very nervous we would not have for the upcoming year.
The area that we plan to look at, and of course this is going to be floated by the committee, is to upgrade our public housing units, look at the energy side of it, look at extending the life of these units, replacing some of them, look at providing programs for homeowners across the Territories so they can upgrade their units also and look at energy and all the different issues that are challenging other people across the Territories. We’d also look at enhancing our Homeownership Program that we can provide houses to people who qualify for those units.