Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will say up front that I am not going to spend too much time on this issue. We have had some good discussion today. I certainly appreciate the comments the Members have made. There are a lot of issues in the area of housing needs in the Northwest Territories and many of them are raised today. I can’t say all of them can be blamed or should be attributed to the transfer of the housing or the dollars to Education, Culture and Employment. My intention was to have an assessment. We had some discussions with the ECE. We recognize there is a need. It is timely that we do an assessment, we do a review. We wanted to be able to frame that out and bring it to committee. This motion came rather unexpectedly to us.

Mr. Speaker, we have to recognize that. There are other issues we need to deal with. As I mentioned

earlier, I had indicated that there are a number of things we need to talk about, how we are going to address and just some of them I would like to highlight today is the issue of seniors’ rents. That has come up. We need to address that. There is the issue of an evaluation for our Housing Choices Program. The review needs to be done. It has been a couple of years in the making now. We need to see how they are working. We have to do this public housing rental subsidy and get an independent audit to look at that.

Mr. Speaker, it was my intention to do this. I am not sure if this motion is going to allow us to do the due diligence that needs to be done. One hundred eighty days to respond is fairly short.

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