Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you. As, again, we agreed upon earlier, we are going to do three Members here with general comments and we’ll ask the Minister to do three Members at a time, so are you finished with your general comments?

Mr. Speaker, of course managing our assets better will result in a healthier balance sheet. This is a given. We know that there are about 400 mortgages still being held by the Housing Corporation and this has not always been a smoothly run area. Collection rates were around 30 percent back in 2012 with arrears totaling about $16 million, then came the Revised Mortgage Balance Program to deal with that.

Can the Minister inform the House today, what is the current status of this Revised Mortgage Balance Program and what is our current rate of collection and how are we dealing with this balance of...

Page 400, community housing services, grants, contributions and transfers. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. As agreed upon earlier with convention, we are going to go through three Members’ general comments and then we’ll ask the Minister to reply. With that, I have Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement earlier today, I mentioned that as a nation we are facing an affordable public housing crisis. With only 23 years left in the declining funding model from Ottawa, the NWT is being saddled with decisions on affordability, adequacy and quality in its annual public housing budgets. My questions today are for the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation.

Recently the Minister was in Ottawa with his Cabinet colleagues discussing the infrastructure needs for Northerners with his federal counterparts. We know that an announcement for $18...

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, committee. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort our witnesses into the House today.

Minister Ramsay, would you be kind enough to introduce your witnesses to the House?