Hiring Locally To Construct Housing  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will not commit to a contract here. No, I will not do that, but what I am saying is that the community will do it with the assistance of the Housing Corporation. It is going to be a joint effort. It is not going to be one or the other.

Hiring Locally To Construct Housing  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. May I suggest, Mr. Zoe, that once we come closer to that time of the survey being done, that your people may take the opportunity to sit down with the Housing Corporation people and work it out. I am not going to negotiate a contract with you here.

Hiring Locally To Construct Housing  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Once again, the needs survey will be done by the community with the assistance of the Housing Corporation. Thank you.

Hiring Locally To Construct Housing  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The needs survey that will commence this spring -- it is very important that Members inform their communities of how important that survey is. The Housing Corporation will do some of that up-front work and try to inform people of how important that work

Hiring Locally To Construct Housing  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I realize what has happened traditionally in the past, but that is not going to happen in the future. The corporation is not going to go in and do the survey. The survey will be done by the community, and they will make sure that all people are represe

Hiring Locally To Construct Housing  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Maybe I did not make myself clear yesterday. The survey will be done by the community. It is not only going to be done by the staff, and I will make sure that staff is involved with the community in doing it, but it is going to be the community survey

Hiring Locally To Construct Housing  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know there are many contractors and many different approaches when they go to work in the communities. But I know in some of the smaller communities I worked in, you have to sit down and meet the people, talk to them, if it is moose hunting season o

General Contracts For Design, Supply And Erecting Of Houses  Yes, I agree with the Member. That is one way to maximize local labour and it benefits the community. They are doing that again in Fort McPherson this year.

General Contracts For Design, Supply And Erecting Of Houses  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Was that the one in Fort McPherson and it was design, build, ship and erect in Inuvik. I will check into that and we will report further. I remember who all got the money out of that contract.

General Contracts For Design, Supply And Erecting Of Houses  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, we are very sensitive to this piling issue. Pilings should come from the NWT if they are available; I agree with that 100 per cent, and we are trying to make sure that does happen. If somehow some of it slips by us this year, guaranteed, it will n

Housing For Seniors  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is a home improvement program, and then there is that emergency repair program that seniors can apply for, and then there is the senior citizens' repair program. As well, there is a HAP senior citizens' repair program, and there is a special proje

Public Housing Rental Rate Structure  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I agree with what the Member is saying, that we have to develop the programs so they meet the people's needs. A lot of them are in catch-22 situations right now. If you go out and work, you do not get a house. If you work for the government and live i

Public Housing Rental Rate Structure  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My understanding is that there have not been any deaths because of the design of the unit, but that is no reason why we cannot fix the design and make it so that we do not have to wait for a death in order to change design. We have also had concerns abo

Public Housing Rental Rate Structure  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I remember that review because I was here as an ordinary Member at that time. That review was not accepted at that time by the Assembly, I believe. The thing is that it is done, and it is going to go to cabinet. We cannot look at it only as a rental r

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  No. It will be in place this year.