Thank you. It’s an unfair comment to say that this corporation has no respect for our seniors, when you look at all the programs we’ve offered over the years to work with our

seniors, help with our seniors. It’s an unfair comment to say the Minister has no respect for seniors because he did not go and consult with all the seniors across the Northwest Territories.

I’ve said before the answer is going to be no if you ask them. We rolled this out publicly a few months ago. So they’ve had opportunities to know that this was coming and it’s a question of fairness and trying to treat all tenants, residents across the NWT fair and I think we’ve done a good job of that.

For an example, if you look at some of the changes we’re making, you look at a single mother of two that’s making $3,600 a month, under the old system she’d be paying $985 or 27 percent of her income. Under the new system she’s going to be paying $325 or about 7 percent of her income. That’s a savings of $660. So those kind of changes have been made, and in our efforts to treat everyone fairly and equally we did come up with charging seniors rent with a $1,000 exemption to their income which would put them in the lower bracket. Thank you.