Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The land requirements. Some of the issues that we have with land requirements in some of our communities and because it’s quite complex and
sometimes we don’t get the houses we want built for that year because of the issue with the municipal or, as in our case, with the Sahtu municipal lands there are certain agreements that need to be put in place before the Housing Corporation puts houses in the communities. Sometimes when these agreements don’t come in time because of the schedule, sometimes we’re told that if you don’t get your land, it’s too bad, you can’t have a house in your community, and it goes to another community or doesn’t happen.
I want to ask the Minister about the type of work that’s been done with his corporation on the land acquisition issues in the communities, working closely with the Minister of MACA on how that issue is being handled in that we want houses built in our communities. However, we’re not going to give land away for free to the Housing Corporation or anything like that. We’ve got to come to some kind of agreement to see where those houses can be built in our community. People don’t want to give land away for free, but they also recognize the need to have houses in our communities. It’s a double-edged sword. Is that something this Minister is aware of in the Sahtu region for getting houses?
I hear one of the complaints is that with Housing sometimes they don’t have the land so they can’t build houses in the communities. It doesn’t go too well with our leaders in the community. I want to ask the Minister on that.