Thank you, Madam Chair. The Member raised a lot of interesting points. Again, we appreciate the support of the Member. The $835,000 he spoke of was an internal allocation to try and address some of the housing issues for professionals in the community. However, we’re looking forward to bringing forward initiatives to this Assembly, with the support of this Assembly, and we’re looking forward to bringing some initiatives forward that would help try and address some of the issues in a lot of the small communities that have challenges with housing for staff. So we’re looking at updating committee soon on this initiative.

The other initiative, while we do have four pilot projects this year, we haven’t determined which communities they’re going into yet to have some of these hard-to-house units in the community. We’ll take an existing unit, do a little bit of work to it, and it will be a place where folks that are homeless can go and lay their heads down. So it will hopefully address some of the issues that they’re facing in some of the smaller communities and see how this works. We’ll go forward from there. We haven’t determined the location of these yet.

We had originally thought in the seniors that were going into Good Hope of going biomass, but one of the challenges we’re facing right now is the fact that the supply is not where it should be right now for some of the other communities. Once supply improves, I think we should see more and more of the biomass. So right now we’re sticking to the solar panels for that particular unit in Good Hope.

As I’ve said a couple of times before, we’re always exploring ways that we can improve our use of fossil fuels in some of our communities, and as pellets become more easily available to a lot of the outlying communities, I think you’ll start seeing the Housing Corporation taking initiative and start going that direction.

So, again, I appreciate the Member’s comments and support, and we look forward to working with committee as we work on the next few initiatives that we have on the go. Thank you.