Bob Bromley

Thank you for that, Mr. Chairman. Just to confirm, those 60 units, I think…Is it 34 or 38 that are scheduled for Ndilo and Dettah?

I’ll hold off for now.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just for clarity here, this does not include the carry-over dollars from the Affordable Housing Initiative, for example for Ndilo and Dettah.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Actually, I’m just looking for clarification from the Minister. I didn’t understand his answer. I was asking about where we’re at with core needs, at meeting core needs and I think the Minister mentioned 36 percent in one area and 70-some percent in another area. I was asking about Ndilo and Dettah and the NWT as a whole. I’m not totally sure what those percentages refer to. Perhaps I could just get a clarification or a little bit of interpretation of what that actually means. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A very quick question for the Minister; on the $39.544 million, is that the amount of money that’s going from the Housing Corporation to ECE?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the work of this committee and I know they’ve given lots of thought and debate and discussion to this controversial recommendation. I do not support this motion and I don’t take the use of it by other governments, all of which engage in party politics, as a model that we should necessarily follow or a reason for following this model.

Primarily I find the use of such devices to be disruptive and to reflect a lack of due diligence and due degree of attention in the proceedings of the Committee of the Whole in this House. Ultimately, of course, the most...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Another issue that my constituents have brought forward involved in work, other people, is the issue -- and I may have brought this up last year and I don’t know what has happened on it -- but some LHOs, local housing organizations that achieve energy efficiencies, for example, and thus savings, they generate reduced costs, are then given budgets that are reduced the following year and are in effect being penalized for the efficiencies that they have gained. They would enjoy the opportunity to use those efficiencies the following year and maybe generate larger savings...

With that, maybe we’ll just take a short break at this time and then we’ll resume with your responses.

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Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks to the Minister for his opening comments. I see we are committing fewer funds this year. I am wondering about additional revenues. I guess it is called other revenues of $69 million. I will be asking questions about what exactly the source of those dollars is. It is probably in here somewhere. We may be getting an additional $55 million in new federal investments over the next two years, some which must be cost-matched. I am wondering if, when we do firm that up, there will be additional opportunities for review and input of how those dollars will be allocated...