Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. You know, the federal government likes to make these big grand announcements of funding that they're giving to the territory, to everywhere across our territory in regards to housing projects and other projects, but that still doesn't change the CMHC's housing allotment for a community. Until that changes, that's the biggest hurdle that we have to deal with in this government in regards to housing for the communities and the numbers. I could use another 20 houses in Paulatuk, another 20 in Ulu, same thing, 5 or 6 in Sachs maybe, and 20 in Tuk. We have no housing. Everything's run down. These retrofits -- I'm getting retrofits for Paulatuk. I got two -- Tuk is two. Major retrofit for Ulu is one. And the outlying communities are the worst hit in regards to housing. And then we're getting a big federal minister comes in, oh yeah, we're giving you $64 million, but that don't mean nothing. The unit increase from CMHC -- until the federal government gets rid of CMHC and how they calculate their funds, that's when we're going to finally start getting some traction, start getting more housing. And that's what we have to push for as a territorial government. They say the LHO has requirements when they look off the housing list. Look off the housing list in Paulatuk and all the young families that are having kids, young adults having children now, and they have nowhere to go. They all got to go to Inuvik. But at the end of the day, I urge this -- like, our government, I know it's coming to an end for you guys but at the end of the day, on a go forward, the CMHC is the one that has to be changed. That's the problem. We're never going to have any increases. We're only going to get new units, and you're taking in and out of the housing stock. Our communities are hurting. We got no housing. People have to move to Inuvik to get into a unit. And you have no units in Inuvik too. But at the end of the day, on a go forward, when the Minister -- the new Minister, former Minister, whatever, goes forward, that's the thing that has to be changed is CMHC's got to be taken out of the picture in regards to increasing numbers into the communities because we're not 1960 or '70 now. And the housing numbers got to be brought up. That's just a comment.
And, like I -- for the communities that I represent, this is not enough. I got places that two years ago and you could almost -- it's just like jumping on a trampoline in some of the floors that we went in on. There's got to be -- the LHOs, they got to start stepping up in the communities in the ridings. And with the federal government want to come and give funds to our local governments. The biggest concern that I have is, just like here, how do we track them? So the tracking is with the council, the community leaders. They're the ones that have to track this. They're the ones that have to apply the pressure because we're sitting on money that's not being utilized, that's earmarked for housing. So we're failing. It's not so much my Minister's fault in regards to numbers, in regards to getting more houses, because it's CMHC's fault and the federal government's fault for doing what they're doing to her. And she's wearing it, you know. So I -- and I thank you for the work you're doing and I -- but, Madam Chair, that's just a big rant because this is such an important issue for my riding. Thank you.