Thank you, Madam Chair. I think what the Member's wanting to understand is, you know, if we do have the repairs that are throughout the Northwest Territories, ultimately what is that number for us to repair all of those units as a whole. I'll have Vice-President Martin respond. Thank you.
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Martin
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, the Housing Corporation does, each year, look at the unit condition of our assets and we do identify certainly areas where we would like to invest additional MNIs, like renovation upgrades to our existing units. We do go through that prioritization exercise every year. We cannot get at everything. But we do take into consideration the health and safety of the units and certainly continue to operate units in a safe condition, and then look for additional federal opportunities and other sources of funding that could help us accelerate those desired repairs. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So I didn't hear a dollar number in that, and so I'm wondering if a dollar number does exist for that. Thank you.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Madam Chair, it's quite a huge number. It's $40 million. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So, no, I wanted to better understand that $40 million figure, if that had to do with simply repairs or if it also had to do with building new infrastructure. And so, no, thank you very much for -- the Housing Corporation for that, and I always feel very rude with my back to them so I'm sorry for that. But, no, I want -- so thank you very much for that clarification. And we did get a good news story this week from the NWT Housing Corporation, and that was an influx of $93 million to housing in the Northwest Territories. So kudos to the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation for getting their hands on those much-needed dollars, which obviously we can -- we can definitely use.
So of those $93 million, then, how much of that is going to retrofits of units in the Northwest Territories? Thank you.
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Martin
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, so in the current capital plan for this year, the Housing Corporation is delivering a capital plan of about $93 million. And within that capital plan, there's $50.5 million of federal dollars that has been provided to support with that delivery. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, in the press release that we all got this week, it did identify that there was 213 units that will undergo major repairs, modernization over the next three years. One of the things that I'm noting is that in the document we're looking at right now, it does have 176 units of, I'm guessing, those 213 units, which would only leave 37 units left over. So is it the intent of the Housing Corporation to go over additional -- go after, sorry, additional federal dollars in future years in order to increase the number of units that they're providing retrofits for so that we can keep up with the units that require retrofits because to go from 176 here to 37 would see a lot of more units needing major repair in the future. Thank you.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, that is correct. I'll have vice-president, or sorry, President Young respond. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Young
Thank you, Madam Chair, and yes, that's actually work that the Housing Corporation is starting to position an application to Canada for at the moment, to do the assessment on the costs that we would need to put together for an application to do additional repairs, to supplement the work that we are currently doing. So we do intend to apply for some additional dollars for both construction as well as repair. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I think what we're really talking around here is core need in the Northwest Territories, and so I'm wondering if as part of this work, if we can expect to see a plan to pull the territory out of core need within a timeframe with budgets associated with it so that we have an actual plan of how we're going to fix the housing crisis in the Northwest Territories. Thank you.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Thank you, Madam Chair. And I just needed -- you know, the extensive review that is happening right now within the corporation, looking at core need and looking at where we sit financially as well too, there is a lot going on. I'll have President Young elaborate. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Young
Thank you, Madam Chair, and I think what we could do would be put together an idea of what that could look like, but it would be very subjective because so many of these applications are subject to approval under the various funding pots. So you could put together a plan of, you know, what could be done but it would be subject to an awful lot of approvals to be granted as part of that process. But we could give a general picture of what pulling out a core need might involve. Thank you, Madam Chair.