Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The senior citizens' HAP is a normal HAP program, I believe, and there was extra labour money given in some cases -- usually that was tied in with training money -- to build those units. We are looking at doing that again. The special projects dollars

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The concerns the Member has brought up are Territories-wide concerns. We are getting those concerns from a lot of people in the Territories, that the HAP program has become too narrow. It does not meet the majority of the people's needs, so one of the

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To my left is Mr. Larry Elkin, the president of the Housing Corporation. To my right is Mr. Jim Pratt. He is the vice-president of finance for the Housing Corporation. Thank you.

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes I would like to invite my witnesses in the House.

Question O257-12(2): Status Of NWT Housing Corporation  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That is really a dead issue because the bill did not get second reading, and I do not plan to re-introduce it in the near future. For the Member's information, a certain number of steps are involved. The first is to amend the legislation. Then it would

Question O257-12(2): Status Of NWT Housing Corporation  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It would still be called a corporation but would be run like a department, if the bill had been passed. It was not passed.

Question O253-12(2): Renovations To Elders' Facility, Cape Dorset  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think the Member is asking about a senior citizens' facility. All I am aware of, right now is that there are a total of 14 units going into Cape Dorset and a total of five units going into Lake Harbour. Thank you.

Question O252-12(2): Net Savings In Restructuring Housing Corporation  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Once again, there are going to be no savings because the bill is dead.

Question O252-12(2): Net Savings In Restructuring Housing Corporation  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We will not save one cent because there is no change.

Revert To Item 4: Returns To Oral Questions  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a return to a question asked by Mr. Pudluk on February 21, regarding Resolute Bay pipeline freezing. I wish to provide an update to Mr. Pudluk on the freezing of the Resolute Bay water pipeline. It was the water supply line between Char Lake pump

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just for the information of the Member, this year Coral Harbour is getting two units of public housing and five units of HAP housing, and three retrofits, so that is a total of 10, compared with Baker Lake getting 12 public and one HAP for a total of 13.

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to assure the Member that cabinet colleagues have no more influence over me than any other Member of this Assembly with regard to housing allocations. The housing allocation, while I am Minister, will be driven by the needs assessment that

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. For the Member's information, with the retrofit on the old housing units, they become smaller. I guess the reason for that is the insulation in the walls becomes bigger, so the unit does become smaller. As far as stuff freezing up around the stove, tha

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  The big difference from before is that prior to this -- I am not sure what the budget was last year; I do not have that figure in front of me -- to drive millions of dollars of capital projects, the Housing Corporation spent $10,000 on a survey. That is ludicrous. That is crazy

Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. At the present time we are just starting to redraft a housing needs survey and direction is very clear that the communities will be doing it. It will be done by the communities with the assistance of the Housing Corporation. It will be done in their la