When somebody does not pay their rent in the Northwest Territories, they get a slip of paper shoved under their door in their public housing that says, "Pay your rent." When their rent continues to not be paid, they get an email, maybe, and then they get a notice to come in and talk to their LHO or LHA. When they come into their LHO or LHA, the person is then put on a payment plan. If the rent still is not paid, they're given a last chance agreement and evicted.

What I am asking here today is for the Housing Corporation to tell their LHOs and LHAs that they have a responsibility to stop and ask people, "What's wrong?", "Are you okay?", because as it turns out, some people have lost their jobs during COVID-19, something else is going on in their lives, they cannot pay rent, and they have not been connected with supports like income security.

All I am asking is for a checkbox on a form when they are going through an eviction that says that the person was connected with a support. I don't think this needs to wait until March. I don't think it needs to wait until next year. I think that providing a connection between NWT residents and supports services that are paid for and delivered by the GNWT should be a natural thing, and all I am asking for is a commitment to do that.