Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member is talking about the homeowners in the Sahtu. If you look at the number of homes that are in the Sahtu, initially those homes were provided by the NWT Housing Corporation or with assistance from the NWT Housing Corporation. We contributed greatly to homeownership not only in the Sahtu but across the Northwest Territories.

The Member talks about core need. Again, core needs is kind of a tough one to gauge. If you look at the numbers from the last one done in 2009, I think it said that – I can’t remember exactly what the numbers were – 35 percent was core need. Again, we have to make sure that information is accurate, because if you came and asked me is there anything wrong with your house, I can find

something wrong with my house, so that’s going to affect the core need percentage in a house.

He talked about inspection of units. We have condition ratings that are required to be done on our housing units every year. It’s done every year. They go in, they inspect the unit and identify any potential work that needs to be done and any potential issues that might be coming up. Again, I think the Member was using this in reference to homeownership. Again, if you look at homeownership, it would be their responsibility to ensure that they do the inspections on their house. We have programs in place like the preventative maintenance program, the SAFE program, which is a bit of an emergency repair program, and CARE program. If they identify some issues that needs to be done, they put an application in and our technical people will go work with them to make sure they identify work that needs to be done and they help them with it. Nowhere else in the country is that opinion available to a lot of homeowners.

I’m a firm believer in putting the onus back on the homeowner to identify. I always think of the story where an 85-year-old lady had crawled underneath her house to work on her own sewage tank because it was her house. She felt it was her responsibility, so she did that.

Again, we have a number of programs in place that assist people in the Northwest Territories. If they feel that there is a potential issue with their unit, then they would contact our district office. We’re hoping that with the new way we do business, they would contact the local housing authority and do a lot of the application process through them. Then if there is technical work that needs to be done, our technical people would come in and help identify that.

As far as mould goes, mould is getting to be an issue and a lot of it is how we maintain our own units. That has something to do with it. We were starting to see more and more people… In one of our district offices, we have someone there who is a qualified mould technician. We’re hoping to have those. After a recent visit to one of the communities in the Mackenzie Delta, they had some concerns there with potential mould. I think it was the very next day our mould remediation person went over there to inspect the unit. I haven’t heard the outcome of that yet. I am quite interested in hearing about that.

With mould being an issue, we are starting to see more and more people with expertise privately and within the corporation and we plan on utilizing that. A lot of it is education. We try to put a document out there to say this is what you may need to do to prevent mould.

As far as the transition housing goes, the hard-to-house units that we’re doing, it’s our intention to try to spread these units all across the Northwest

Territories to make sure everyone benefits from them. Again, we haven’t decided where these are going yet. We will work with the communities and see which communities have high need. I am sure we will hear from a lot of communities across the Northwest Territories. Again, this is four units this year and we can maybe consider this a bit of a pilot project to see how this goes over and then go from there. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe I have touched on everything Member was asking.