One hundred twenty is even shorter, Mr. Speaker. We need to do an evaluation on the affordable housing units. We need to do something to look at the income threshold. We have already started that. We need to do the 2009 community survey, the core needs assessment. We have to incorporate a new fuel system. We have to deal with the issue of housing for staff. We have to improve our communications. All these things were raised with us. We also have to deal with the energy issues and look at long-term strategies.
Mr. Speaker, there are issues that will come up as a result of our review. There are probably recommendations that we could work with. There was a good comment made today that, where is the proof that it is working? Well, we need to look at the proof that it is working or not working. There are benefits that we can point to. We know that the collection is back to where it was historically. We know that our LHOs that are in arrears, there are less of them in arrears now than there was at the time prior to dividing the responsibilities. We have done satisfaction reviews. They point up to 76 percent satisfaction of the process. We know that it is 10 percent of the population today that are not paying their rent for one reason or another. We don’t know if it is because there is a new system, because 10 percent was the number that we had historically. Maybe that is the number we are always going to be dealing with. For some reason or other, people are refusing to pay. There are a lot of things. There are a lot of issues that need to be addressed.
I certainly appreciate the concern being brought forward from the MLAs. I am still very much in favour of allowing us to do a formal review. I’m not sure if the motion can be amended to allow for that. We certainly will look at information that comes forward, if we are allowed to get all of this compiled
in a timely manner, to make a decision that makes sense based on true fact.
We heard today that some people were concerned that there wasn’t enough input. There wasn’t enough analysis done when this decision was made to separate the responsibilities. Well, I am concerned that there may be some impact that we haven’t fully analyzed yet, if we reverse this decision or parts of it or do nothing. So it is really difficult to respond ad hoc. We need to formalize it. I am asking, I guess, for consideration that we amend the motion to look at giving us some time to do a true analysis. Thank you.