Yeah, no, well this will really free up a lot of housing for the Housing to build more houses in small communities. And I can't believe it that we do have a homeless specialist in our own territory where there's 50 percent of the population are Indigenous and most of the people that are living in those units are Indigenous people. You know, and it is -- I find it offensive because in our -- like, we never really had any issues with this in the past. And this goes back to colonization. From the beginning, we've been asked -- we've been told how to live, what to do, all those things. There's a lot of legislations in place. And now with this handbook, whatever, tenant's handbook is also telling tenants what to do. And I find that very offensive. And I know that -- and they said they were going to, you know, like, put it in Indigenous language as well. Like, we never really had that issues. We never had an issue with homelessness before. Now, because of colonization, we do have a serious, serious housing crisis in small communities. Even in Tlicho region alone, we have more than six people living in a single household, and transferring this unit to long-term tenants. And I know what she's saying that -- I know there are some arrears that's probably stopping some of the transfer to take place. Like I said before, some of these outstanding arrears stems from going back using the last year's income tax notice of assessment. And I said it before that last year maybe they were working; this year they're not working. And some years are good that way. Just like it's being reported on the CBC news report. So I just wanted to ask the Minister when can she do the transfer? Like, can she do it sooner than later? Thank you.
Jane Weyallon Armstrong on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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