Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As we all know, there are high pockets of unemployment in the Northwest Territories, especially in rural and remote communities. For a housing unit, the cost of $300,000 to $400,000 can go a long way to generate jobs and employment opportunities in our communities. This government has government policies and procedures to deal with that type of opportunity so that those dollars remain in the
communities and some of those negotiated contracts, sole-source contracts, local tenders. Mr. Speaker, the whole approach on negotiated contracts is for the local organization in regards to community development corporation, local contractor getting the support of the local MLA and the local government to put forward a negotiated contract to the Minister to take to Cabinet and let the Cabinet determine if that contract should go or not go in those particular communities with the support of the MLA and the local government.
I would like to ask the Minister of Housing why hasn’t he taken any negotiated contracts to Cabinet knowing that this is a policy in government and why are you not following the policy.