Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the Member’s comments on the work that the Housing Corporation has done. As I said on a number of cases, we have come up with a lot of initiatives and then we task our officials with doing all the work and they do a very good job.

The public housing stock, we are placing I think 39. You notice, when we do talk about our public housing stock, we always talk about replacement. We are not adding any new public housing on. If we put 39 in, we will more than likely be taking 39 out, some of our older units because we do have a lot of old units out there. Part of that is as a result of the declining CMHC funding.

We still are hoping to meet with the new federal Minister of Housing with my colleagues across the country. We are co-chairs of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers of Housing, so we need to get some face time with the new Minister. I think he had committed to Premiers, when they were at Niagara-on-the-Lake, that he was going to try to get together with the Housing Ministers. That’s something we’re working on right now.

The application-based program through the homelessness, I believe the particular one that the Member was raising, I believe they have an application in and it’s just in the process right now. I think we do support two or three initiatives in the community of Inuvik, accessing some of this money, but I believe the new one has… I see your colleague is giving you a hard time about that. Actually, I think there are none in Inuvik and 10 in Yellowknife.

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We’re reviewing the application right now.

Again, I appreciate the Member’s comments. I think it’s something that the message is starting to get out there. I always say that Housing didn’t just wake up this morning and decide they were going to evict somebody today. In a lot of cases, it’s a year-long process. I’ve heard the saying that we don’t evict people, people evict themselves, and I believe that. It’s almost a year-long process and they’re given a number of chances to try and stay out of being evicted. Some of them will take us up on it and they will honour it. There are some that will use all those avenues at their disposal and then it comes to an actual eviction, and I think that’s when Members of the Assembly hear from them, is when the actual eviction is taking place, so we like to provide Members with a small briefing outlining the chronology of events that took place to lead up to the actual eviction.

With the home warranty, the units that we built, our technical people will inspect those homes and

ensure that they’re built according to the Building Code and according to our specifications. They will normally carry a one-year deficiency warranty. For people who purchase homes – and I think that was the case in this event, that home was built and this was the second owner, they weren’t buying it from the actual builder, they were buying it from someone else who had it built – part of the responsibility would fall on the homeowner that’s buying the unit to ensure that they have a proper inspection done. I think we’ve gone above and beyond in a lot of the cases, where some of the houses we’ve built and maybe two years later somebody says this isn’t working, our folks will go back in there to ensure that it’s working. Again, it’s something that we need to work on, but I know for the units that we’re having built – and the Member mentioned the 100 units that we’re doing over the next three years – of course we’ll ensure that they go through a rigorous inspection process to make sure that we’re getting a good quality product. In most cases it’s a one-year warranty afterwards. So, we will do what we can to ensure that the public dollars we spend on these units is well spent. Thank you, Mr. Chair.