Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So my -- and I think this is the issue that I've been raising, and I know that the Minister had mentioned in the House that there's no capital, but then this gets really confusing for -- I'm not a finance person. So we've got a crown corporation but we -- the buildings that we want to -- if we want to house people, we need -- we need the houses. So those become capital but we're paying, you know, a million dollars a year to house 40 -- you know, to have 45 rental units just in Inuvik. That's just in Inuvik, which is double the cost of the -- then I think in Yellowknife, if you look at it, 65 units is 1.2 for 65 units. You know, so we're paying -- we're paying some crazy amounts for rent up in the North and, you know, my colleague from Yellowknife North has mentioned this over and over again about how we're giving all the money to these southern companies, and I just feel that, you know, with the amount of units that we're spending this O and M money that we could potentially in the future have a building because we also have the college who's leasing units for residents that are coming in -- families that are coming in for the college.
So will the Minister explain, like, what's the -- with these leases and with the future plan of trying to come up with a plan in -- especially in my community of Inuvik where we have a hundred people still on the waitlist yet we're leasing for 45 families units, what's the plan and how are we going to continue to, you know, pay for this when we're renting out whole apartment buildings instead of -- it's cheaper to own and operate an apartment building ourself. Thank you.
