Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much, colleagues, for allowing me to continue on with this motion.

WHEREAS the NWT Housing Corporation implemented new public housing rent scales on July 1, 2012, including new criteria for determining tenant household income in order to assess their rent;

AND WHEREAS the new criteria for household income includes child tax benefits which were not previously assessed as income;

AND WHEREAS federal and territorial tax benefits are intended to help eligible families with the cost of raising children under 18 years of age;

AND WHEREAS the Government of the Northwest Territories Income Support Program does not include child tax benefits other than the National Child Benefit Supplement for the purpose of its household income assessments;

AND WHEREAS by clawing back child tax benefits, the NWT Housing Corporation is working at cross-purposes with other territorial and federal programs;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Sahtu, that the NWT Housing Corporation immediately ceases treating

child tax benefits as income for the purpose of calculating public housing rents;

AND FURTHER, that the Government of the Northwest Territories work to identify and eliminate other similar inconsistencies in the subsidy programs;

AND FURTHERMORE, that the Government of the Northwest Territories provide a response to this motion within 120 days.