I’ve got a cold here, Mr. Chairman. I want to comment on the initiative that the Housing Corporation’s going to pursue on the housing rent initiatives. Certainly we look forward to it in our communities.
I wanted to say that this is a longstanding issue. For many years they talked about the whole process of the rents. It has an impact on our relationship with the federal government and their way of doing business. I want to just encourage the Minister and his staff to see if they would be able to speed up the process. I know it takes some time to go through the transition; however, if they could speed up the process to look at the rent issue here and help the people in our communities to find some room for them to make a good living, to pay their bills, and to look at how they could get some savings out of their paycheque. A lot of my constituents do find jobs; however, they are dinged pretty high on household rent assessment. They get pretty discouraged when wanting to find work or stay with a job. I hope the corporation and the Minister can put this rent assessment in place right away so we can start seeing some benefits in our communities. That’s all I have to say.