That’s just something that we’re working on right now. I can’t give a specific timetable. You have to understand that we have a lot of folks out there in the small communities that are paying a fairly good rate for the power that they consume, so we have to give that some consideration too. We have to be understandable of that. It’s not one that we just don’t want to rush in blindfolded and throw a number out there. We have to realize that we have a lot of folks in small communities where their power rates are awfully high and they’re not as fortunate as some of the larger communities that have a lot cheaper power.

Does the Minister have any statistics as to how many of their Housing Corporation clients are on income support?

I’m sure that information is there somewhere, but I can tell the Member that we have 45 percent of our tenants who are paying $32. There are 21 percent of our tenants that are at zero. We do have some statistics and I’ll try to pull them together and give the Member all of the information he needs to make a very informed recommendation.

I will once again thank the Minister for his generosity and I will leave it at that point. I will take it as he’s offered it.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. We’re on page 5-58, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, local housing organizations, grants and contributions.

Page 5-59, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, lease commitments – infrastructure.

Page 5-60, NWT Housing Corporation. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d just like to ask the Minister about the facilities such as the Joe Greenland Centre, the facility in Behchoko, and I believe there’s a facility in Fort Simpson, with respect to long-term care facilities. I’d like to know where in the budget you can show me that there are actually infrastructure investments and how much money is going to be invested into the Joe Greenland Centre for the retrofits that are required for the two reports from Public Works and Services and the Housing Corporation on the condition of the facility and the work that has to be done to bring it up to code.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We haven’t identified any exact numbers. We don’t have a line item yet for the work that’s going to be undertaken at the Joe Greenland Centre. It is one that we are hoping to bring forward and get approval for, but it’s not a line item in this particular budget. It is work that we are planning on doing.

I had assumed it was one of the assets that we serviced, so I assumed it was part of the $386 million line item. It is an asset that the Housing Corporation owns. I assumed that if it was listed as an asset, that we should know the book value of it and the depreciated value of it. Do we have that type of assessment?

We don’t have that level of detail here, but I will commit to the Member that we’ll get the information that he’s requesting.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Page 5-60, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, infrastructure investment summary.

With that, we will now turn back to the summary page, which is 5-41. Is committee agreed?

Page 5-41, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, financial summary information.

Does committee agree that that concludes our consideration of the NWT Housing Corporation?

With that, I’d like to thank the Minister and his witnesses for joining us here today and I’ll get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber. Thanks to the Minister for his responses.

As agreed earlier, our next department is MACA. Does committee agree that we move on with the Department of MACA?