Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too will be supporting the motion. I, for one, do feel that we have to fill the gap between market and non-market communities and we have to be fair to all our working residents in our communities. I think that we as government have provided housing in the past, whether we called it staff housing. We still provide housing in our communities for the nursing staff in our communities. They have a fixed rate. They know what their rent is when they go into those facilities in our communities. They know exactly how much they’re going to have to pay for that particular unit. So we already have a program running in our communities. All we’re asking is to expand the program to offer the same type of programs to the residents of the community with a set rate per unit based on the unit that’s there.

I think it’s the question of not only fairness but also of ensuring that we are as government being able to provide government programs and services and deal with the fundamental challenges we face in our communities. One of them is dealing with affordable housing and professional housing in our communities to attract those individuals to stay in our communities, provide government programs and services, and not see that as a barrier to delivering government programs and services. All I’m asking is, we already have a program similar to this in our communities with the nursing staff. We already know that they’re paying about $1,000 a month. We’re asking that you provide the same program to the other working residents in our communities.