I’ve only been reassuring the Member for about a year and a half, and in that year and half we’ve seen a significant improvement. I have a lot of confidence in our LHOs and our corporation’s ability to deal with the deficit. I know the Member thinks I’m just trying to paint everything with rose coloured glasses, but I do have a lot of confidence in our LHOs. We are doing what we can to work with the LHOs. There are some costs that are borne by the LHOs that are uncontrollables that are usually reimbursed by the Housing Corporation, and there are some that are uncontrollable. It’s a work in progress. Short of cutting a cheque for the amount that this particular one is in deficit for, we need to work with them. If we continue to keep bailing them out with the tenants realizing that they don’t have to pay their rent because they’re going to bail them out anyway, we’re sending the wrong message. I’m not prepared to do that. We will work with the LHOs. We will expect them to have the tenants come in and get assessed. For those that are assessed and are receiving the subsidy from ECE, well, that helps the LHO and that helps us. If they don’t come in and get assessed, they’re automatically dinged for economic rent, which in turn puts them in arrears. It’s hard for us because we’re unable to collect from income support to subsidize the rent. It’s a scenario that works both ways.
I continue to be confident in the LHOs’ ability and our ability to deal with the deficit and I have to be, because if we just start bailing everybody out, then I think we send the wrong message to tenants that regardless if they pay rent or not, the LHO will keep running. We’re not asking... As the Member says that it’s hard to get blood from a stone, but there are a lot of folks out there that have stepped up to the plate and I can run off numbers of people that have come forward, entered into repayment plans, and that in turn helps the LHOs.