Mr. Chairman, again, I certainly agree with the Member. We have heard and we recognize that there is a need for probably a new type of housing design; a very basic facility, a very basic unit. Possibly something that could be built in the community. We are looking at ways to use this as an economic stimulus, whether it is log -- that is a question that we haven’t quite figured out yet -- stick built, and the other option that we are looking at for consideration is a modular. We have some communities that are saying we need units right now, so we are looking at all fronts, all angles. We will come forward with some possibilities.
Mr. Chairman, the Member raises public housing in the community that he represents, Colville Lake, and I think Mr. Menicoche also raised it for Fort Liard. Mr. Chairman, I also have, personally, one community in my riding that historically did not want public housing units and do not have public housing units in those communities of Colville Lake and Fort Liard. There is now a push to have those units. Our challenge is, in order for us to build a public unit, a public housing unit, we would have to take it out of our stock somewhere else, as we do not have new
money for operations and maintenance. It is something we have aligned ourselves in partnership in other jurisdictions. We need the federal government to sit down and listen to us, hear our arguments.
Mr. Chairman, this year, I think our reduction is $750.000 in the area of operations for our public housing stock and I believe it is 2011 that we are going to see a significant reduction of $3 million that is going to force us to do either of two things: either reduce, take some houses off the market or raise our rents. Mr. Chairman, we are quite concerned of where we are on this issue, because we recognize we are a couple of thousand public housing units short of what we need to really service all the communities, so we are going to need to be very creative and we’re going to have to be very convincing with the federal government not to pull out of the public housing subsidies that they provide for us. Thank you.