Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank my colleagues for their support. As well, I’d like to appreciate the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation for being proactive on this issue, but certainly there’s a gap in our programming. There’s a need here or else a motion like this would never have been discussed in our committee system and with other colleagues.

For instance, I’ve got a senior that exhausted all the programs the Minister spoke about, so how do we

address his concerns? We’re going to have to come up with some kind of new program or a targeted program and try to work our way around it. There are many other issues that the seniors face, Mr. Speaker. They’ve got arrears issues that must be addressed. Like I said, they’re often many, many years old, and what are they doing there? You know, they’ve got to be exhausted.

In the end, Mr. Speaker, it is our job as a government to make life a little bit easier and to improve life in the communities. That’s what this motion does. It’s urging government to look; we’ve got to refine this. There’s apparently a gap, let’s work towards closing it. Let’s help those that are in need directly and not just make it a bureaucratic nightmare and say, sorry, you’ve exhausted all the programming, you’re not eligible, we cannot replace your furnace or your hot water tank at all.

With that, Mr. Speaker, and in closing, I’d like to ask for a recorded vote on this motion. Mahsi cho.