Mr. Speaker, I certainly want to stress I hope the Minister doesn’t take this personally, but that is quite a travesty to hear that we are not motivating our tenants by those types of things. I can tell you for a fact, that recently someone had an overpayment and the GNWT, well, the FMB sends the leg breakers. They start phoning them regularly over a simple error. They threatened credit bureau. They threatened everything but the kitchen sink to be thrown at them. But housing arrears accumulate to $23 million. Someone should be given a head shake over there to say, how long are we going to persist?
Mr. Speaker, the bottom line is, if we don’t take our arrears seriously, somebody who decides not to pay can go get a truck if they want because their credit isn’t stained. They can go buy a skidoo. They can do whatever they want, knowing that nothing is hanging over their head.
Mr. Speaker, what is the lead foot problem on this issue to stop the government from saying, well, we will just talk to them? We need to motivate them. What is stopping the Housing Corporation today for initiating a new policy that says anybody who owes arrears, we will pursue it through the credit bureau and send it to a collections agency? We have the outright responsibility to do this. Thank you.