Thank you, Madam Chair. I think, overall, the issue around the declining funding is there really are a lot of elements that are going in to trying to manage that. Obviously, our top priority is to work with our federal partner and see if they may reconsider that decision to get out of the social housing business. We work very closely with our provincial and territorial colleagues on that. The Minister is the chair of the P/T forum, the Housing forum, and the Ministers met in June and were developing a number of materials to help engage

with the federal government, to both demonstrate the need but also to talk about that partnership and a way forward on that. We’re looking forward now to a meeting with the federal Minister on that.

That said, we can’t sit around, as the Member knows, and wait and hope that the federal government changes its view. So we’ve implemented a number of things in terms of looking at our own management of the units, and the cost and energy costs are a big portion of that. We’ve looked at other revenue opportunities. We’ve looked at other programming options like the Transitional Rent Supplement, take a little bit of the pressure off, the Public Housing Program and steps like that to alleviate some of that pressure, and then probably very importantly is the investment that the GNWT has made to offset that, with the support of this House, to offset some of those declines that we have seen in these past few years. A lot more work needs to be done, but I think we are taking some steps to try and manage that and make sure that the worst option which might be reducing the stock is one that we don’t have to take. Thank you, Madam Chair.