Thank you, Minister. Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the corporate highlights in terms of the housing mission and corporate goals is to improve services that was for implementing and expanding community-based housing property management services in rural and remote communities. Would the First Nations have an opportunity to perhaps sit down with the Minister and her department in arranging at least some form of maintenance arrangement to ensure that those houses could be serviced perhaps if the opportunity exists? Or else maybe explore the opportunity to see if the services and maintenance could be done by First Nations people from the reserve? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, within this current budget, we have committed to setting up three LHOs within the community so we won't be taking on any more within this current budget. We are more than happy to meet with the communities and see what we can do to best meet their needs. Again, like I had said before, we will be examining other communities within each fiscal budget coming up. The goal is to have LHOs in all communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Mr. Nadli.

This will be my final question on this section, Mr. Chair. Is the Minister indicating or stating that possibly in the near future there could be an existing LHO on the Hay River Reserve? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I reinstate that we are committed to trying to get in every community that has the capacity, we are looking to eventually have an LHO office. At this time, in this budget, no, we will not be providing LHOs in the Hay River Reserve. But, yes, I am willing to meet with them and, yes, we will consider it in future years. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Anything further, Mr. Nadli? Nothing further from Mr. Nadli. Do we have any further comments or questions on page 362? Seeing none, we will return to the page 361. Are there comments or questions on the operations expenditure summary on page 361? Ms. Green.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It is my understanding that the Housing Corporation includes the cost of power in the rent that is charged. Is that correct? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently, at this point, people pay nine cents towards the utilities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Ms. Green.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will take that to mean nine cents per kilowatt hour. My question is: what plans is the Housing Corporation making to reduce the costs of subsidizing power to the social housing units, to their units? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Green. If the Minister could clarify that it was nine cents per kilowatt hour. Thank you, Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do appreciate the Member's comment and correction. It is nine cents per kilowatt hour. I apologize for that. What we are doing to try to address that, as well, is within this fiscal budget, we are looking at increasing it by another six cents per kilowatt hour to make it 15 cents per kilowatt hour, which is still lower than the general population is paying, but promotes independence within the population. There is also a cost savings when the public pays for their power versus the GNWT paying for the power. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Ms. Green.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Could the Minister tell us that, with an increase of six cents per kilowatt hour up to now, 15 cents per kilowatt hour, what the impact would be on the rent scale? She could choose either the lowest rent or the highest rent just to giving us an idea of the impact. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There will be no impact on the rent scale, actually. This is above and beyond the rent scale. The average cost that will come to a family would be about $27 per month. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Ms. Green.

Thank you very much, and I appreciate the Minister's answer on that. Could she tell me what kind of communications plan will be implemented to inform residents about this increase and about ways that they can save costs on power? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the rate increases are usually done by the Power Corporation, so we're working with them on that. We will be communicating to all the residents, though, because we're hoping to implement this by August. There will be communication sent out to everyone that is using our units before that, to give them enough notice. The whole goal is to get people to do more of, just, conservation. We know that the biggest driver or the biggest savings for utilities is conservation, so we need to get people more focused in that.