Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So currently right now and we at the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation are subsidizing all of public housing tenants, utility costs. Once the utility costs are transferred over after the three years, yes, we will definitely look at it an incentive program and training program so that people can actually be rewarded for conservation. It is important. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The costs for the local housing organizations is on page 354, administration and maintenance. Currently we do not have them broken down by riding, but if the MLA would like we can provide that to him tomorrow as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, like I said, that would be, in my opinion, disrespectful if I make commitments before the results of the surveys were in, so the answer is no.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The areas of apprenticeship that we are working with are carpenters, oil burner mechanics, and housing maintenance serviceperson. I should also state that many apprenticeships actually take a four-year period, so even though you have only 12 over the term, it does take four years for people to finish their apprenticeship. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The monies that actually support homelessness are more than that. They are Housing First, the 150, then 125, 280 for Pathways, and 200 for Small Community Homelessness Fund. That is actually the operating and the provision of services that the funding is for. The rest is coming out of capital and other departments for the renovations. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Actually, I will be going up to Inuvik this Friday to sign an MOU, so it is a memorandum of agreement, with the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. Excuse my pronunciation. So we have been working with them for quite a while to actually decide what they were going to do, how we were going to work this, so we are looking at developing, within this fiscal year, a fourplex in Tuktoyaktuk and a sixplex in Inuvik. Both of them can be used for seniors' accommodations if that is the requirement, if that is the desire of the IRC, Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. Thank you, Mr...

Excuse me, Mr. Chair, if I have to speak really quickly. I don't have a clock here, and I am going to try to address as many as I can. I will be going all over the place because I didn't have time to format it.

Thank you for recognizing that it is a difficult portfolio. I also recognize housing is a difficult portfolio and really important. When we were doing the Cabinet shuffle, I actually asked to keep housing because I believe that it takes someone with experience, with a social degree, actually, to provide some necessary changes, so I did ask to keep this portfolio, good, bad, or ugly.

The...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we do look at them all. All we need is to have a Journeyman within the communities who can do the apprenticeship. So we are open to all apprenticeships. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the current program, like Mr. Carpenter explained, may require going to the bank. When we do the program renewal, we will need to look at those. So we have the idea of what we are doing. We have not defined what it will look like specifically because there may be ideas coming within that, but we need to be cognizant that we need to be fair to all residents.

So if people have gone to the bank and taken out a loan to be able to pay for housing, then it would be not fair to just let other people not do anything. So I am not saying that this program would be looking at they...

As stated, being a resident of that cooperative, I do remember the volunteer hours, and sometimes it was not eagerly volunteered. It was more of a requirement of being in the cooperative, but it does give back to the community, and it is a way of working together, and it does build community relations. It made me actually go out and meet my neighbours, so I am an advocate of that type of housing unit.

However, I have committed to doing this survey and, depending on the results of the survey, we will be defining what I do within the coming year. It would be disrespectful of me to put my needs...