Thank you, Madam Chair. Just on the comment around other departments and their role in homelessness. As the Member is well aware, homelessness is a complicated issue where there are lots of facets to it, but other departments do continue, even though there was some consolidation, to play an important role. For example, there are a number of emergency shelters that receive funding through ECE as part of the per diem that they get for income support-type payments. There are family violence shelters that are funded through other departments that are important parts of that. The Day Shelter in Yellowknife, of course, is funded by Health and Social Services and they provide funding as well for the SideDoor Youth Centre. Transitional housing, there’s a grant-in-kind through Public Works for Rockhill Apartments, so there’s a variety of sources for addressing homelessness and I think I would be remiss if I also didn’t note that when you’re dealing with homelessness that all of those other services… I have been known to say that Housing First is important but it can’t be only housing, and so there are all those other services that are just as important to deal with homelessness as well.

On the second issue around utilities, we are monitoring that very carefully. We’re getting some very good data coming out of that. For something like fuel oil, you can imagine that we probably need to get a full annual cycle of data, because there’s delivery times and you’ve got to be a little careful that it doesn’t look like there’s more consumption just because somebody delivers more frequently than others and it’s similar with water but we’ve now been at it since April so we’re starting to take a look at that. Electricity, we’ve been watching very carefully. I, just a couple of days ago, took a look at that and we’ve processed, just out of interest, almost 30,000 electricity bills over the last several months, obviously since we started, and you are starting to see some interesting patterns. Only about 2.5 percent of the bills have more than 900 kilowatt hours of usage, so we’re starting to be able to identify units that are maybe using a little more

and in the next several months we’re going to be developing reports so that anybody that’s a real outlier on any of the utility ones, the LHOs can start to address to see if there’s behaviours or other reasons why those units may be higher on the consumption scale. So some very, very interesting data there. I think it will also be very interesting to look at that and understand the impacts of some of our retrofits and those sorts of things as well. So I think there will be more good stuff coming out of that. Thank you, Madam Chair.