Yes, Mr. Chairman. Our staff are already aware of this so they’ll be accommodating to that concept.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. We’re on page 5-55, information item, programs and district operations, operations expenditure summary.

Moving along to 5-56, also an information item, programs and district operations, grants and contributions.

Moving along to 5-59, also an information item, local housing organizations, operations expenditure summary. Mr. Yakeleya.

A couple questions on the local housing organizations in terms of the collections. Again, it’s been brought up by several Members that when the LHOs were in the old system, they were pretty successful at collecting rents and when they moved into the new system under the Education, Culture and Employment, the collection percentage went down quite considerably. I’m not too sure what the trend is now in terms of the collections. I say this because with the percentage of collections that go down from the local housing authority, that has an impact on their funding in terms of a surplus or a deficit and it hurts the community. I guess I’m trying to figure out something that is hurting our local housing authority in terms of the programs they are supposed to be providing for the communities. That’s a real issue for me and that’s an issue for my local housing authority in the Sahtu and they brought it up as an issue they wanted me to raise with the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister McLeod.

Mr. Chairman, once again, the collection rate has gone back to where it was historically. We did have one bad year where it dropped down to 76 percent, but we’re back up to close to what we were collecting in 2004-05, which is close to the 90 percent mark. We’re actually at 87 percent.

It’s good news. I don’t know what they’ve done but it seems to have been brought up. I guess historically the LHOs in my region -- and I could be wrong on this one here -- collected up to 90 percent of the collections and this still has an impact. In regard to the funding, I’ll have to wait and see, I guess, for another couple of years to see where it will go but...I’ll wait a couple more months to see the numbers but this is what I’ve been asked to say on behalf of the people in my community on this issue. They are quite concerned. The Minister has said that it’s going back up again so...I’d like to ask the Minister, overall in the Northwest Territories, are all the numbers coming up, on average? Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, most of the Members’ communities exceed 90 percent, some are close to 100 percent. We have one community that is having some challenges and we will be working with them.

I certainly wasn’t aware of these numbers here as the Minister has indicated. These numbers that I’m going by were given to me by Housing here, so I hope that these new numbers can be shared with us.

Mr. Chairman, we’d be pleased to share the numbers that we have in

terms of collection and receivables from his riding if the Member would like. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Next on my list is Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A very quick question for the Minister; on the $39.544 million, is that the amount of money that’s going from the Housing Corporation to ECE?

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. Anderson.

Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Mr. Bromley.

So the Education, Culture and Employment is the difference between the amount of rent that’s assessed to the client that’s collected, like the $5 million or whatever it is, and the maximum rent. The difference comes from ECE if the client’s go down there and file their income. Is that correct? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Anderson. We’re on page 5-59, information item, local housing organizations, operations expenditure summary.