Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, a couple years ago we had an issue where we were looking for material supply, and it was a tender that was for the whole Northwest Territories. So we had some concerns from some of the district providers, so that was changed and they broke it out into districts so the districts would be able to provide quotes on it.

The supply, ship and erect, it is a concern to some of the smaller operators. The ones I know have the capacity to deal with it, but there are some that are just comfortable doing the labour part of it only because they don’t want to have the responsibility of ordering the material and having the material

brought in, because that is a lengthy process and it’s quite long.

We don’t have an issue or a problem in breaking it down to labour only, if it is the wish of the Member and it makes good sense, especially if it is a lot of the smaller communities where they are able to do the labour. It is not really a big issue. We are more than willing to look at that and see if we can do that.

The Member’s second point about the LHOs helping people in the community that have furnace issues, I worked as maintenance supervisor in Aklavik for so many years. I must have cost the Housing Corporation an awful lot of money because -- I’m confessing now --

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people would come and borrow things. A lot of times it was an emergency. We had maybe 25 percent of the people return the stuff, but we still had some problems. That would be a decision that would be made at the local level. They know the community. They know who will give back. I know for a fact that most LHOs will not leave people in a bind. If they need a piece if their furnace is out, if they are able to, they will go and fire up their furnace or give them the parts to fire up their furnace. That is something that the housing community does. If we have more and more people returning -- and it was a problem with contractors too. Contractors would come and borrow a bit of material here and a bit of material there, saying that they would bring it back. Some of it you got back and some of it you didn’t. It is usually up to the discretion of the LHOs, but they are pretty good at making sure that they don’t leave people in a bind and wanting to help out where they can. As a corporation, I wouldn’t want to overstep their authority and say you have to do it or you have to bill it because, if you start... Well, we’re not into the material sale business. Usually it is a trust thing. We will give you the part if you bring it back. It works in some communities and it doesn’t work in some.