We have offered up a meeting to the leadership of the Hay River Reserve. That has been a challenge. Almost from the time of the Minister previous to me, that has been a bit of a challenge. Part of it is because of the fact that it’s on reserve land. If there were eligible clients there and they were able to get I think it’s a band council resolution, a BCR, to have tenure to the land, then they would be able to have access to those units.

We’ve tried everything, we’ve tried selling it to the band. We’ve had many discussions on this particular file and we’d really like to see it come to a conclusion because those units have been empty for a while and, ideally, we’d like to see six clients in there. If we can get six clients that are eligible, six clients that have land tenure because land tenure is one of the conditions of accessing our program.

We’ve worked with the band. I know they’ve written a letter to AANDC, if I’m not mistaken. So it’s something that we need to get resolved fairly quickly because these houses have been empty. I’ve been Minister now of the NWT Housing Corporation since 2009 and those units have been empty since then, and even before then I think they were still just being completed. Part of the problem was getting them completed in a timely manner. I think that’s what kind of held everything up and then getting suitable or eligible clients to get in there and, as well, getting the land tenure.

So, I believe I’ve written a letter, or the president has written a letter to the leadership there and we’ve offered up another meeting because this is a situation that we would like to get resolved. We’ve been working with the Hay River Reserve to try to make that happen. Thank you.