Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ll let Mr. Anderson answer that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have had the money in place for over a year, but it has taken us time to actually work with the communities to get them to finish up. In fact, one of the communities just came in the other day to finish the process even though they expressed interest over a year ago. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The $492,000 is actually an old CMHC funding, and so it’s discontinued, so now being covered under homeownership programs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The average percentage was based on the stick-built price the Housing Corporation received as part of the public tender process, compared against the design build process, received for module homes that were awarded. The NWT Housing Corporation is not permitted, under the tendering and contracting rules to provide specific detailed information on each proposal, but we can say, that on average, the prices received for stick-built, was more than 30 per cent higher than the module prices. In some case, the per cent was actually much higher. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, if the Members would like us to provide it in the House, then we can do that, although I would like to say that I was hoping that the committee was a way of disseminating information to the Members. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That was the one I assumed and so made the statement that, yes, every application can be considered and north is $15,000, southern communities are $10,000. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Anderson will expand on my statement earlier.

The corporation realizes that the shelters and the foster care shelter is really important and vital to our communities as it provides a safe place for our children in this case and for women that are experiencing family violence. In order to do that, we try to maintain them as best as possible. The NWT Housing Corporation did receive federal funding for renovations for family violence shelters and we’ve met with the, we’ve got together with the five shelters and we’ve put all the money on the table and we’ve asked them to kind of prioritize what they see as the needs. On top of that, the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, this will not take away our ability to provide housing for our residents. We’ve been doing market housing for about 15 years. We have a huge success rate within the communities. The community has asked us to keep it. Not only do they appreciate it, they require it in order to maintain services such as teachers, social workers, nurses, and now RCMP within our communities, they rely on the NWT Housing Corporation to provide those units. The cost of the RCMP housing actually will be the operating and maintenance will be charged back to them and they will be paying market...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Previously, Aboriginal governments have come forward and wanted to take ownership of their housing needs and we tried to work with them and those attempts weren’t really successful. I am really committed to, and I believe, like I had stated many times, that self-governance is important for Indigenous people, and within that true self-governance means that you have to take on ownership of your housing, your children, et cetera. I am really more than open to working with an Aboriginal organization that’s willing to try out a pilot project, but I really want to stress that I...