Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess as I sit here and I listen to, you know, the comments and the answers from the Minister is that, you know, there's no doubt that -- you know, there's no doubt that we need housing. And it seems like the only game in town is the housing corporation and I think that's -- you know, it's a good approach but I think we have to expand that, and we -- you know, we talk about it -- you know, we talk about Indigenous governments. I don't see them in front of us to tell me personally what they're doing to increase housing stock. You know, we've got to tie housing into economic development. When we're looking at -- when we're looking at providing land and resources to companies -- or maybe part of the component should be providing housing to communities, to communities where they're getting workers from. You know, those are the -- we've got to look outside the box and find other ways to do it.

The other thing we've got to do is jobs. You know, we've got to be able to -- if we can provide jobs to people, that's another way to do it. We can -- you know, we can assist people and make it -- you know, buying their own homes. I don't really care how people get their homes. We just need them to get it, and we have to look outside the box. I don't -- you know what, I understand housing has a role to play here and, you know, we have -- you know, and they have HELP units that are -- that go sit empty for -- you know, for months or years. We realize that. Our utilization rate for public housing units should be near a 100 percent all the time. If we're doing retrofits, we should be doing them quickly. And we should be using local and northern contractors to do it. But those are the type of things we have to do. But, again, this is -- you know, we're caught up in bureaucracy and government is slow. We know that. So we've got to find other ways to do it. You know, I realize government has, you know, to do something. And then we've got the federal government on the other hand. You know, we're counting on them to provide us the money. You know, that's where the money comes from at the end of the day. So we've got to -- you know, we've got to kind of look at everything and we -- it's always the same story, you know, housing is not doing this, or housing is -- you know, houses are sitting empty and all this. We've been preaching that for four years and other guys been -- other people have been preaching that before that. So, you know, I'm kind of getting tired of it, and we have to do something different. And this next government has to do it. We're not going to do it in this next week, I tell you that. So somebody has to do it, and whoever is in here for the next government, I hope that they take a look at other approaches because that's what it's going to take. It's not going to take just this government doing it.

You know, to me, you know, if it's looked after in the communities -- you know, I feel the Indigenous governments could probably build houses and I know they build houses and provide housing a lot faster than we can do it sometimes. So, you know, it's just a comment that I want to make because we're not going to -- we're not going to solve this problem. We're not going to build a house for every person in the Northwest Territories even though we'd like to. You know, some people are going to have to buy their own. You know, maybe we can get, like I said, resource companies, you know, when they come in here and extract resources to help buy houses. And the federal government will provide us money so we can provide houses. But everybody has to do their part and, you know -- and that's the way -- at least that's the way I see it, so. Thank you.