Hopefully, we can get around some of these issues, because that’s something that I know in the community of Fort Liard are challenged with. That annually, teachers are hired in the springtime but they show up in the fall time only to find out they’re having challenges with the units that are available. It’s something that I would urge the Minister and government to try to put in place and even create some units this coming summer. Once again, I am glad to see that line item there. Maybe I can shift gears here a little bit.

I know that Mr. Yakeleya was talking specifically about urban native fully targeted line item here just above that, but I think some of the concerns from the communities that I heard is that some of the housing dollars that the Housing Corporation get are earmarked, for lack of a better word, for the urban native, because we don’t have reserve

systems here. Some of the communities have actually asked how our specific band access funding from the band corporations, if they are getting aboriginal dollars for housing. So my thoughts around that actually were, can we create a program or look at establishing some of our funds to specifically give it to the band organizations out there to build some houses or create some houses which they can manage if they so choose. It is one thing to say we can manage our own housing but the other thing is the same as the government is facing, yes, you are giving us money for houses but it is the O and M that is the real kicker, that is a drawback. I believe that discussions should occur. I believe that we should actually look at some type of programming that identifies, for our different bands out there, to address this concern. At the same time, I think we need a complementary strategy with the federal government too. Just because they are providing some dollars doesn’t mean that they also can’t provide some aboriginal housing dollars for, I think it is called, off-reserve housing, I think is the word the federal government uses. I don’t know what kind of discussions that maybe the Minister can touch on that he had with his last visit with the federal Housing Minister on this particular topic and he may have represented himself as only GNWT funding, but at the same time there is funding necessary for our aboriginal communities. So I would just like to see how the Minister worked his way around that, what are his thoughts on that, and I don’t think it is about devolving all the housing corporations but it is about addressing the needs and concerns of the aboriginal communities and the band councils out there, about delivering some of their own homeownership programs. Thank you.