Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, Bill 56, An Act to Amend the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Act, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on October 20th, 2022, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review.

On February 16th, 2023, the standing committee held a public hearing with the Minister responsible for Housing NWT and completed its clause-by-clause review of the bill.

Madam Chair, I just want to say that committee has been fairly hard on housing this term. We have definitely tried our best to hold them to task and to really push change from the housing corporation, now Housing NWT, and are thankful that they've bought in through -- this work, really was born out of a motion that was brought forward by this side of the House and I think I can honestly say that it was the motion that was most positively responded to from the other side of the House. And so I want to pay credit where credit is due.

With that said, I also think that committee has given a lot of grace to housing corporation in saying that they want to be able to properly resource and fund and support the work of housing and the change that we expect to see. And so we wanted to see a lot more ambitious legislative changes through this, and we're hoping to see a lot more ambitious legislative changes in the length of the 19th Assembly. And so, you know, given that a piece of legislation was opened, it would have been nice to have seen more substantive changes put forward. While that is said, I understand what the Minister is saying and hope that the 20th Assembly will get a more substantive piece of the legislation from Housing NWT.

So thank you very much, Madam Chair. Individual Members may have additional comments or questions at this time. Thank you.