Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. Stewart.

Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think the Minister’s offer might be of interest to the Members, too, but just on those older units, I’m assuming they are beyond use, would we be expecting replacement units to be on the capital plan in the near future? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As we put those six into stock, we have to take six out and they’re replaced. So they’ll replace six older units because we just don’t have the funds from CMHC, again, to deal with that. There’s a lot of CMHC numbers that were tied to particular pieces of infrastructure. So we put six in and we take six out. Thank you.

It just seems a little bit caddy-wonky. On the surface it seems right, but given that there’s nobody there that can take advantage of those six homeownership units, they’re not really part of the public housing stock. Obviously, there’s a need there to replace the units where people already are. So I’ll just leave it at that. I don’t want to take up too much time on this, but I look forward to this Community Needs Survey that we’re getting a briefing on in the next week for further discussion. So I’ll leave it at that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will take it as a comment, and of course, we’ll be updating the Member on any changes that might be happening in his riding. But we’ll take it as a comment.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Again, committee, we’re on page 58, and continuing on with detailed questions I have Mr. Blake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I mentioned earlier, I see a lot of things happening in the Mackenzie Delta region. I’m thankful for that.

I’d just like to ask the Minister, I don’t see anything on here for Tsiigehtchic and I mentioned that there’s a unit that needs retrofit. So would that fall under O and M because it was a current unit? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t know, we’ve got a couple of major M and I’s that are slated for Tsiigehtchic. I don’t have the exact, but this year we have two major M and I’s that are slated for Tsiigehtchic. As to the details of which units those are, I don’t have that right now. It may or may not include the unit that the Member is speaking about. So, we’ll get the details as to what two units they’re planning on doing major retrofits on. I think over the next couple of years we have four major M and I’s that are going into Tsiigehtchic. So whether that includes the burned unit or not, I’m not quite sure. I’ll get the details and share it with the Member. Thank you.

Thank you. I look forward to that information. Moving forward, are there any plans for another multiplex unit for Tsiigehtchic and also Aklavik as well? Thank you.

Thank you. We have no new units that are slated for Tsiigehtchic this year or the next year, I believe it’s the next year too. There’s nothing slated for Tsiigehtchic or identified for Tsiigehtchic this year. We’ve got the two major retrofits and that’s our investment in Tsiigehtchic this year.

As far as a long-term plan, as I responded to Mr. Bromley before, we’re looking at a Community Needs Survey to help us identify where some of our strategic investments have to be.

In Aklavik we have two replacement units going into Aklavik this year; as well, we’ve got some major M and I’s that are going there. I think we just had a couple of market units go in there in the last couple of years, plus you’ve got the new Joe Greenland Centre and then you’ve got those five duplexes we just put in there. So there you go. Thank you.

Thank you. Yes, a lot of nice buildings coming up in Aklavik. I was wondering if the Minister would know if one of those replacement units is Bennett Apartments. As the Minister knows, it was probably built in the time that he lived there and that was quite some time ago.

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If the Minister could answer that, thank you.

Thank you. Again, I’m not sure of that particular one. The bones in the unit itself are pretty good. So if there’s some work that

needs to be done in there, I’m sure the LHO will identify it, but it’s about 20 years old, I believe, 20 or 25 years old. The structure itself is still pretty sound and if there is some major work that needs to be done in there, then the local housing organization will identify it, but I don’t know, again, the details for sure. We’ll find out exactly what the plan is for there.

Our numbers we have are pretty high level numbers, as far as the actual house numbers and the details of what’s being replaced in the community, that’s a decision that we will work with local housing organizations to see if there are some units that they want out of stock and we can replace them with some of the newer units. They’re in a better position to tell us what works and doesn’t work in the community.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Committee, again, we’re on page 58 of the capital estimates. Finance and infrastructure services, information item, any questions? Seeing none, again committee, if you’d be kind enough to go back to page 57, NWT Housing Corporation. This is just an information item only, any questions?

Seeing none. Does committee agree we have concluded consideration of NWT Housing Corporation?

Thank you, committee. I’d like to thank Minister McLeod, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Anderson for joining us this evening. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber, thank you.

We are going to continue on with the NWT capital estimates with Municipal and Community Affairs. With that, I will turn it over to the Minister responsible. Mr. Minister, do you have any witnesses you would like to bring into the House? Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Does committee agree?