Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll have vice-president Jim Martin respond. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. A lot of comments there, but I appreciate them all coming forward as well because, you know, I first of all want to touch on AFN and when I first got the portfolio that, you know, there was some talk amongst AFN but they didn't recognize anything north of

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. And I hear where the Member is coming from, and I hear this comment throughout the Northwest Territories. But I put this opportunity out there. This was a new initiative, a new approach to say that these single-family housing units are up for sale, here yo

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Housing is there ready and available to be working with these individuals in making sure that we provide the adequate services. We've got 52 applications so far. And like I had said, that the condition of the units as well too that we need to make sure tha

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd have to follow up on those requests coming forward because what I've seen so far is that there's a number of circumstances that lie within those transactions as well too. And just looking at every file but also trying to create fair, adequate opportuni

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. We did roll out that initiative earlier in this government as well. We didn't have such a significant uptake. I was under the assumption that we probably would have gotten rid of a thousand of our units; that's what I was assuming. But what had come back i

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll take that back to the department as well because I don't want to take work away from, and the responsibility, from the nonprofit organizations. Like I had said, I'd rather support them. And I do know they're significantly underfunded, and this is some

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. This was a very unique situation that happened in the Beaufort Delta, and I don't look at practicing this going in the future. I want to more invest into education and training for NGOs. I want to more be able to partner with them. With this case, it was q

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll have vice-president Jim Martin respond. I don't know if we actually have that tallied up number on hand. We might have to get back to the Member.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. This was a one-time opportunity where the federal government had reached out to housing corporation at that time to deliver the housing units. And no, that's not going to be our practice in the future. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. The last number I had to date that I could remember at the top of my head was 33. We've had projects throughout the -- oh sorry, 35 not 33. And these requirements are built into the contracts that are put out there throughout the Northwest Territories. And

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  I'm happy to say that is absolutely correct. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. These plans are really -- I just kind of want to go back a little bit. In the last government, this was really emphasized by the former president at that time to get these community housing plans finalized. These were to be advocating documents that identi

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Right now the community housing plans have taken a different approach with the allocation of the distinction-based funding that was allocated to the Indigenous governments. And they are now using these plans to identify their needs, and now they've receive

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I actually had this in front of me while we were sitting on the floor of the House here. We have a number of them that are in the draft plan stages. And I'm just looking for the ones -- we have some that are in progress where there's just the communication