Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m assuming the Member’s talking about the buildings that the community governments put up? Residences too? Well, as far as the residences go, I mean, if they’re built by the NWT Housing Corp, obviously we would inspect each one of the buildings that we put up. As far as the community buildings go, I believe the assistant fire marshal would check to make sure all the codes are met, and again, depending on who designed the building, I think there are times when there are site visits made by the building designer. The architects that design the building, I think they would make site visits to ensure that what they spec’d were adhered do.
As far as private residences go, again, in communities where they have building inspectors, they obviously have to file a plan, but we have a lot of communities that don’t have building inspectors, and if they’re building a private residence, well, obviously, first of all, it would be to their benefit to build it to code, and if it were bank financing, I think the bank would want to have the comfort that it was built to code.
There was some discussion a number of years ago, and I think it’s something we may have gotten out
of NWTAC, too, about building inspectors in the regions. I mean, we would have to have a look at that and see if there are partnerships that we can form with some of the community governments to bring something like that on board. I think, for the most part, most of the buildings that are built in the Territories are inspected, one way or another, to make sure that they adhere to all the applicable codes.