Jane Groenewegen

I am going to call Committee of the Whole to order. The Members are aware of the items that are before us today. What is the wish of the committee, Mr. Menicoche?

Thank you. Clause 7.

My question is for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.

How many direct appointments have been made to the Aurora College's Thebacha Campus in the past two years? Thank you.

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The preamble.

So I guess I just want a commitment from the Minister that the kinds of initiatives undertaken to address these issues of maintenance cost and utilities cost will be very practical and user-friendly to the occupants of these units. There are many other examples I could give of initiatives the Housing Corporation has undertaken which just turned out to be an albatross for the people who had to actually live in those units. I don’t know what my question is, but that’s it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Clause 4.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask a few more questions to the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation. Mr. Speaker, within the planning and design function of the Housing Corporation for the construction of northern housing units, I was wondering what kind of resources are accessed in order to do that kind of planning. I have noted that the houses that are constructed with Housing Corporation dollars in the communities often don’t seem to be very sensitive to the lifestyle and culture of the people who live in them. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 13, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2004-2005, and Minister’s Statement 68-15(3) and would like to report that Minister’s Statement 68-15(3) is concluded and that Bill 13 is ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Clause 2.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the reason why I ask about how the mandate is divided and how much is spent on administrative overhead versus program delivery is because I believe that there are a lot of things that could be done that may seem smaller scale than building a lot of new housing units. I noticed, since I travel in the communities, that there are a lot of boarded up, vacant housing units in all of our communities, particularly in the smaller communities. I would like to know if the Minister has an idea of what kind of inventory of vacant units the NWT Housing Corporation...