Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we commit to that. Thank you.

Mr. Anderson will take that, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It is the same issue, but I will let Mr. Martin expand on that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was a bit confused in all honesty because the Member asked for the information on the Homeless Assistance Fund, but the Homeless Assistance Fund is actually one-time funding that people can access for up to $3,000. I am thinking that the question should have been the Northern Pathways to Housing, which is about putting in homeless shelters. If that is the case, then we have the three communities that we are putting the homeless shelters into and that is Simpson, Aklavik, and Behchoko. Then we have $70,000 in operational funding that we are giving to those communities...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we will provide that to the Members.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Actually, yes, it is federal monies that we received, the $16 million. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A strategic plan will be developed from the needs surveys in that it will be communitybased. Each community, 33 communities within our region, within our territory, will be identified individually, and then the longterm plan will be to address the needs individually within that community. It’s not a strategic plan that lumps all into one because I don’t believe in onesizefitsall. It will be a strategic plan that identifies within each community what are their goals and then strategically how do we address the goals within those communities. There will be community focus...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have about 150 people actually taking advantage of the Transitional Rent Supplement Program at this time. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Currently there’s 37 public housing units with seniors residing in them in the Nahendeh communities. Of those 37 units, 29 of them are actually senior designated, meaning that they are specifically designed with accessibility features and these include the eight new units in the seniors independent housing complex that was just recently completed in Fort Liard. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Specific to the Hay River Reserve, we have been working hard within that to support the Aboriginal government on the reserve. There were 16 units actually that we built and put up and actually ended up being boarded up because of land tenure issues. We have dealt with negotiating with the federal government, which took a long process, and I have to give credit to the Minister before my time actually for starting that, but we now have ten of those 16 units that we actually have negotiated with the federal government and we have land tenure. We are still continuing to...