Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I would like to thank the department for a trip that we had made to do some strategy housing discussions here by the Deline Got'ine Government on October the 5^th. It was very informative and appreciated by the leadership and me.

Just adding to my colleague from Nahendeh's statement here about these boarded-up units, there are actually two different types in most of the communities that I represent. I see boarded-up units that could be referred to as the "ex-homeownership units" under the HELP program. The tenants or the occupants by default are under mortgage, so those units are sitting there. Some of them, I do believe, are still very structurally sound buildings. I just saw one on our last trip to Deline there where I think if a replacement of under the program to replace the fuel tank. I noticed the meter was gone off at the building. That has to be recertified. It's probably going to cost in the neighbourhood of $6,000 to $8,000 to get power hooked up in those units.

If the department in their capital initiatives for this year's capital plan could do an inventory of those types of units and see what it will take to bring them back into the marketplace here for future tenants, in some cases there, the boarded-up units have been taken off at the windows and the doors and snow has collected inside. That tells me that the floor insulation is probably damaged. I'm just encouraging the department if they can do an inventory assessment of all these units and all the communities, not the public housing units, but the ex-HELP units or the ex-homeownership units, then we can decide how many units we have out there, in which communities, and part of the inventory could include what it will take to renovate them to put them back into the marketplace here. Thank you, Mr. Chair.