Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is a problem we are facing across the Northwest Territories. We are taking steps to deal with the rent collection. I have to point out, though, that our five best performing LHOs, as far as average arrears per unit, three of them are in the small communities. Our best average is in one of the smaller communities, so that showed me that these are communities that are honouring the commitments that they’ve made and these are the communities that we don’t hear concerns from, from the MLAs. This is one of the reasons I believe we are in the situation we are in today where we have so much arrears, is because of political interference, not only at this level but it gets to this level at the end of the day. It all starts with the board not supporting their LHOs when they’re trying to enforce rent collection. That hurts the LHOs. It hurts the tenant most of all because they realize they can go to the political leaders and have this brought to a forefront for a responsibility that was theirs and that they didn’t accept.
We want to work with these people, Mr. Speaker. We’ve made that quite clear. It’s not our intent to evict people in the wintertime, spring, summer or fall. We just don’t want to evict them, but they have to work with us, Mr. Speaker. Unfortunately, it comes to a point sometimes of where eviction is the last option. Thank you.