Tom Beaulieu

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Today I talked about the lack of adequate housing for teachers in Lutselk’e. I would like to follow up on my statement with questions for the Minister of the NWT Housing Corporation. Mr. Speaker, will the Minister commit to working with me, and the local district education authority and the community, to see that an immediate solution is found for this situation? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am interested in having the department look at expanding the Access Road Program. I think that we have several reasons for using the Access Road Program. I think one here has been to access gravel, as is the case in Tuktoyaktuk. I think Mr. Krutko has been asking for the same type of access to gravel for construction purposes and so on. The case has been used for better construction of infrastructure within the communities and so on.

There is also accessing communities, which, I guess, is essential, the development of access roads to access communities like Dettah...

I just confused current year with the budget year that we’re referring to for a second there. On the Highway No. 6, I guess to ask the question that I guess is a similar type of question to how the budgeting works, I noticed that the project title indicates that this project goes from kilometre 0 to kilometre 90, but the actual budget, prior year’s budget plus this upcoming year’s budget will all be spent on kilometre 67 to kilometre 90. So I’m wondering if this again is an item where the budget will eventually be cash flowed out at the same amount that’s indicated in 2010-11 all the way to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess I did have more specific questions, but I’ll try to keep them as general as possible.

On the runway stabilization of the Department of Transportation, the projects, I noticed that there is a project cost only for this year in the plan. I’m curious as to what system the department uses to purchase the products, because the products are already in the communities but there’s no prior year’s cost.

Mr. Speaker, as per an earlier commitment, during his next visit to Lutselk’e, can the Minister commit to meeting with the local DEA and the teachers so he can hear firsthand on the issue in Lutselk’e? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, as is the case for addressing specific groups like seniors and singles and so on, specific communities also have different priorities and different core needs. Can the Minister tell me if the NWT Housing Corporation has a strategy to address communities with the highest need on a priority basis? Thank you.

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Today I talked about programs and policies of the NWT Housing Corporation. I would like to follow up my Member’s statement with questions for the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation.

Mr. Speaker, can the Minister tell me if an evaluation of the four new programs, or programs that were introduced a few years ago, has been undertaken to determine their effectiveness in taking clients out of core need? Thank you.

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to talk about programs and policies of the NWT Housing Corporation. Having just returned from Fort Resolution, I find that housing is still a big problem with many residents of Tu Nedhe.

Mr. Speaker, I think part of the problem may be changes made a few years ago with the corporation’s housing programs. Unfortunately, when the corporation revised programs from 14 programs down to their current four programs this created a whole new set of problems for housing clients.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Assuming that the needs survey is roughly along the lines of the past needs survey as far as core need goes, can the Minister advise me if you will provide direction to the NWT Housing Corporation to ensure there are strategies in place to specifically target core need? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, it takes different types of programs to address different types of need. For example, seniors groups and singles groups may have different programs to address their needs. I’d like to ask the Minister if the Minister can tell me if the NWT Housing Corporation has a strategy to address core need levels of the various groups such as seniors, singles and various sized families. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.