Mr. Chairman, I know in the past, one of the ways we try to work with communities that didn’t have LHOs is work out what we call community service agreements with them that they have sort of a... Give them $10,000 or $15,000 and let them hire somebody internally that work with the local regional staff. When they come in, they have somebody there that they can talk to, sort of a liaison position for those communities.

I think that communities, if they realize that they have a say and they basically have a stake in the infrastructure that is in their communities, you will see them take better care of it, knowing that they are responsible, they are going to have a say who is going to go in there, what repairs have to be done to the different units, where people can come to and I think it’s something that we’re looking at through the small community initiatives in regard to the one-stop shop sort of thing where we have program officers now in different communities. I

think the same concept can work with the Housing Corporation where we don’t have LHOs, and I think it’s because of those units and those communities we hear a lot of outcry of why they’re not being required or why they’re being boarded up and a lot of it is because you’re so far from the regional centres that you don’t have people on the ground that you can actually talk to unless you physically fly in there. In most cases that does not work for most communities.

Again, I think that’s something that we should be looking at to try to embrace the communities and get the communities to take some ownership of these units in their communities where we don’t have LHOs, but work out a relationship where we can work in conjunction with either the local band governments or whoever the government structure is in that community. Thank you.