In a perfect world the Housing Corporation decides to get away from this particular unit that has eight units, we sell it for whatever dollar amount, I have yet to find the value or balance. We sell it which means the money goes into the GNWT coffers. Somebody now becomes the owner and someone decides they want to be in the rental business in the Northwest Territories in this community. I don’t want to ask a hypothetical question because we’d be ruled out of order, but I see it as a huge opening that someone would be coming to us asking for money and assistance in order to create a business opportunity in this community. Would this be giving them their money back to repair it? What type of program opportunities will happen in this community that will either deal with this or avoid this situation? I’m sure the Minister sees what I’m saying. If we sell it to someone, we get the money for it and we just give them back the money to repair it, so they can rent it and we rent from them. We’re just finding a method to move wealth around, so the government not only pays, but we pay double. Can this conceivably be the situation or does the department have a plan and this isn’t the case?
Robert Hawkins on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 11th, 2015. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 10th, 2015
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