Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister is correct in looking at alternative energy sources. A lot of those in past budgets, committee on this side had to do a lot of fighting to get some of those into the operating budgets.
We’ve got about 80 homes for sale in Inuvik. That means people are leaving and wanting to leave. They can’t pay their heating bills or their power bills because it’s too high. That’s 80 homes. That’s a lot of people leaving the community.
I’m not asking for a subsidy throughout the whole Northwest Territories. My Member’s statement and my questions today are specific to Inuvik because of the high cost of living.
Would he look at the community of Inuvik and look at the homeowner and look at the small business operator, which is getting fewer and fewer every year, every month? Would he look just specifically
at the community of Inuvik and see what he could do to help the homeowner and to help the small business operator? Thank you.