But again, Mr. Speaker, in my visit to Tsiigehtchic a number of weeks ago, meeting with the housing operators and authorities and the tenants, this is still an issue, because once a month, basically, an income support worker either comes from McPherson or Inuvik and they have to wait for that individual to come to the community to get the assessments done. In the case of the housing authority, they are one month behind in regard to their payments. But again, if the individuals are not in the home community at that particular day, they are basically assessed on an economic rate.
Again, Mr. Speaker, I think it’s crucial that this government does everything it can to return to the
existing system prior to the switchover, back to the housing authorities so that the $30 million could go to where it was supposed to be spent in the first place and, more importantly, Mr. Speaker, working with the local housing authorities and also assisting the tenants so that they cannot have a record by way of arrears or being evicted from public housing simply because they missed the meeting.
So, Mr. Speaker, at the appropriate time I will be asking the Minister of the Housing Corporation questions on this matter. Thank you.