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.
Jane Weyallon Armstrong on Committee Motion 434-19(2): Committee Report 47-19(2): Homelessness Prevention: Supporting Pathways to Housing NWT Residents - Forgiveness of Arrears for Residential School Survivors, Carried
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Committee Motion 434-19(2): Committee Report 47-19(2): Homelessness Prevention: Supporting Pathways to Housing NWT Residents - Forgiveness of Arrears for Residential School Survivors, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 29th, 2023
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