Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That’s a good idea. We’ll work closely with the Department of Health, and all the information that we can gather, we’ll make sure that it’s available on our website. We will take the Member’s suggestion and we’ll work to implement it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We appreciate that support.

As the work picks up, there will be opportunities where we will have to come forward to request more money to deal with all the work that we are doing. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Member for his comments. I think we’ve all been to the communities and we’ve seen the work that they’ve done. With the responsibility they’ve been given they’ve done a lot of fantastic projects in the community. As the Member said, they have the ability now to make the decisions as to what their priorities are. I appreciate the comments and a shout out to the communities.

I would, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

For the NGO to access the money that a community gets, that’s not part of the process. When there is some money there, I think it was $350,000 that may come over to MACA for the NGO Stabilization Fund and it’s for governance and management and organizational development. So, as to actually purchasing infrastructure, again, that would have to go through the community.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to welcome my constituency assistant to the gallery, chaperoning a couple of Pages and I’ll recognize them later on in the week. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are just in the process of working with ECE to identify possible income support clients that we could transfer over to this program. We find that this program is going to be a good step going forward because, in the past, income support clients have had difficulty accessing private rentals. We feel with the NWT Housing Corporation having the lease, or sub-lease, then we would be able to make it a little easier for these clients to access housing. As soon as we come up with a progress report, or as we are moving along, we will be sure to update committee on the work...

We work with the communities and if there’s a desire from the communities to change their name to their more traditional language, which a lot of them are doing, this government would fully support the position of the community, and if that’s their wish then we will respect that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is a coordinated approach between Municipal and Community Affairs and Education, Culture and Employment. Thank you.

I shudder to think where this territory would be without the investment from the NWT Housing Corporation. To say five years of failure I think, Mr. Speaker, is an unfair statement. If you look at the money the corporation has spent housing people, they have helped many people. We know there is an affordability issue in some of the market communities and that is a result of the market, and we take steps to deal with that. We continue to invest money, such as the territorial Rent Supplement Program or Public Housing Program. We have other initiatives that we are working on right now to try and...