Thank you. The motion is in order. To the motion. Member for Kam Lake.

Thank you very much. I'm just hearing somebody saying no more strategies. And so I want to be clear, this is not a plan to make a plan. This is just how are you going to deal with this and do it. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. To the motion. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Well, I also just think this is a great idea for our people. I also think that there is an economic benefit for forgiving people's debt. And I've mentioned it here before. We've heard the conversation in the US around forgiving of student loans and how that will actually help with stimulating economy because money that would then be spent on interest and principal payments will then be back into the economy and being spent by people. And I'm always struck by how the communities operate, from what I see anyway, is that any time someone is doing well or has the ability to help, they do. So, you know, if people here are having their arrears forgiven and they're no longer paying towards a debt, I don't think they're going to turn around and take this extra money and run off to Cancun for a vacation. They're going to turn around and help the people around them that are struggling. And so to me this will have actually more of a ripple effect in that sense because I know people are out there taking care of each other. And we've talked about how we're even at times, you know, taking care of people. You know, we've all helped people we probably have not even ever met. And so, you know, I think that's a piece that needs to be recognized here. It's not just removing this debt but it's also then the power of the money that will no longer be going towards this government debt. And then there's the saving on administration fees of people having to, like, spend time going after these people and trying to collect when it seems to be quite futile. Thank you, Madam Chair.

To the motion. Member for Nunakput.

Thank you. To the motion. Member for Hay River South.

Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. You know, it's great to say that we want to forgive debt. You know, where do we cut it off at, I guess, is going to be the question. So, you know, I really don't have any hope that, you know, we're really going to -- any of this is actually going to come to fruition. But if it does, I guess what I'd like to see is that we need to -- if we're going to forgive it, we need to know how we got there as well. Like, what put us in that position and how can we stop from getting in that position again, putting the government in the position and putting the people as well in that position. Otherwise it's just going to -- it could be just a cycle that repeats itself and somehow we have to make sure that, you know, we deal with the root cause as well. Thank you.

To the motion. Member for Monfwi.

Madam Chair, this is good because I've always been, you know, bringing up arrears. And I do support the forgiveness of arrears for residential school and other people as well. But in my riding there are some -- probably not just in my riding, it's probably all over in the Northwest Territories with the mortgage as well. There are some residential school survivor who are in their 70s, they still have mortgage payment from the NWT Housing mortgage program. Some of them were refinanced. And their pension, they're paying their mortgage through their pension and it's being garnished. And their income tax are being garnished as well. So, like, I'm getting phone calls today -- like, this -- because income tax season is going to be over on April 1st and there's a lot of those clients that are being garnished, and most of them are the residential school survivor. They would like to see their income tax. Some of them have said they haven't seen their income tax for many years because it's being collected by the NWT Housing Corporation through their -- they're garnishing their income tax. So I do like this. This is a start. And I do support this motion. Thank you.

Thank you. To the motion.

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Abstentions? The motion is carried.

---Carried

Member for Kam Lake.