Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister of House, Mr. McLeod.

Page 5-65, information item, infrastructure acquisition plan. Questions?

I am cognizant of the references in the discussion we had yesterday and so on. I appreciate the Minister’s comments. Again I’m trying to emphasize, too, the coordination role and integration with other government departments and agencies and wouldn’t expect that the Housing Corporation would do all this. There are other departments that could assist with developing the local materials so that they did meet standards. The Housing Corporation could probably work to come up with some forms of appropriate housing that perhaps didn’t have the same types of standards and meet the situation halfway...

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Committee, we’re on page 5-55. Agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Committee, page 5-63, information item, NWT Housing Corporation, infrastructure acquisition plan.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, again, appreciate those comments. I think we, indeed, need to take some serious looks at what’s happening. I mentioned the spiral into poverty that can happen in families and certainly when we have soaring costs in the midst of an economic recession and so on, these are the sorts of things that I’m talking about. There are more in the future. We need to plan for them. What is the Minister doing, though, Mr. Speaker, on the larger picture side to ensure that this government puts in place a mechanism to ensure that future Assemblies are not saddled with exactly this...

Very good, Mr. Yakeleya. Go ahead.