Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Public Housing Rent Scale was introduced in 2012 to help make monthly rent for public housing units simpler, more predictable, and much more fair. The scale ties rent to a household income and makes sure no one pays less than $70 per month or more than $1,625 per month. It also makes sure rent reflects where people live, recognizing the cost of living is much higher in the rural and remote communities.

In 2015, the rent scale was updated. The corporation announced that, like in calculations for income assistance, payments through the Canada Child Tax Benefit and payments for foster care parents would no longer count as income.

Also, instead of putting the burden of monthly reporting on tenants, the corporation now calculates rent using the household's total income as reported on income tax returns.

These are good changes, Mr. Speaker, but at the same time, this is also where a few problems come into play. Many of my constituents have seasonal positions, working and earning in the summer but then having a hard time making ends meet in the winter.

That means that the income reported on their taxes does not give the full financial picture and rent that could be paid easily during the summer become an obstacle once the summer -- and seasonal work -- ends.

Residents brought this issue forward at my constituency meetings in all of my communities. I expect that when the corporation's housing survey is done, it will come up there, too. In the meantime, people in the Mackenzie Delta and, I am sure, in other communities throughout the Northwest Territories are struggling.

The Housing Corporation has done a lot of work to keep improving the rent scale, and I am confident we could work this out, too. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will have questions for the Minister later today.