Safety Of GNWT Workers  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, working for the GNWT is filled with many surprises, but I think showing up at work one day only to be told that the building you are working in is at risk of structural collapse and that you need to pack up your files immediately and get out,

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad to hear you are in the business of housing people. I have always agreed you should be. ---Laughter I am getting a little frustrated here. I am getting standard answers and I agree with you, you are in the business to house people. I asked wha

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  I agree with Mr. Anderson. I have always been an advocate of trying to get people into their own homes. I would like to know what would happen after two years if they have shown that they can't qualify for a mortgage. Do they move back into public housing? Do they go back on a wa

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am starting to understand this program a bit better. It seems like it's something that I just found out about yesterday during the Minister's opening statements and I have been asking some questions into the program. Like I said before, I will ask a fe

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  I have five minutes left.

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks to Mr. Anderson for clearing that up for me. I asked if the LHOs will be responsible for the maintenance for the first couple of years until the owners take possession, if they qualify. If they are doing maintenance on the unit, I hope it's refle

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Okay. That answered one of my questions. Until they want to buy the unit, the Housing Corporation is responsible and I am assuming that it will be the LHO maintenance department that will carry out this maintenance. Then I asked how long do we plan on running this program before

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yesterday, I spoke to the Supported Lease Program and I asked if it was going to affect some of the other programs and I didn't get an answer then, but I see right now with all the other numbers going down that it is going to affect some of the other pro

Question 357-15(4): Federal Government Awareness Of NWT Concerns  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the Premier for that. I firmly believe that we have to try to get in there as early as possible to try to get our concerns heard and not be put back to the end of the line. I would like to ask the Premier if he's had any discussion

Question 357-15(4): Federal Government Awareness Of NWT Concerns  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I spoke before on our need to leave a legacy. In the Minister's opening statements the other day, he took a bit of a stronger approach. My questions are for Premier Handley. I know the new government was just sworn in yesterday. I would like

Legacy Of The 15th Legislative Assembly  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, much of the history of the aboriginal people is through storytelling that is passed on from generation to generation. A hundred years from now, I would like to see our descendents tell a story of the brave Members of the 15th Legislative Ass

Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. People in social housing who are paying the high end of the rent scale are people who I hear about who want to get into EDAP, but they can't because they make too much. Now we are talking about starting a whole new subsidy program, another layer of publi

Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  So $19.9 million. That answers one question. The second question was, is this going to affect the other programs the Housing Corporation runs because it's another subsidy? I am all for people getting into their own homes, but if you know you can't maintain a home, it just seems t

Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister missed a few of my questions. I asked how much of the $32 million is going towards this program and if it was affecting the other programs the Housing Corporation runs. Thank you. Thank you.

Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Of the $32 million the Minister mentioned in his opening statement, I would like to know how much of that is going towards the 112 units. I am getting the feeling that this is starting to sound like another subsidy program. It almost appears to me like