Mr. Chair, we’ve given people an opportunity to enter into a mortgage repayment plan and we have had fairly good uptake. We have 139 who have chosen one of the options, the mortgage payment plan. We’ve had some that have refinanced through the bank. We have some that have refinanced through the NWT Housing Corporation. We have some that have entered into repayment plans. We’re quite confident and, as I said in my opening remarks, we will get to the point where we will take legal action on some of the folks that are further behind on their payments.
This is one that we struggle with and I’ve said a few times, part of the onus is on the NWT Housing Corporation because we should have gone after these folks a lot sooner to prevent them from
getting into the situations that a lot of them find themselves in now. Part of the onus is on us and we accept that, but a lot of the onus is on the tenants because they signed an agreement to make a payment plan and too many times shelter costs are not one of their priorities. We’ve kind of fostered that by not being as forceful as we should have and we’ve allowed them to accumulate their arrears, and now we’re finding ourselves in a position of where we’re having to go and make all these folks accountable for the amount of arrears that they’re in. Thank you.