Caroline Cochrane

I cannot actually give you a date on when the legislative proposal will be submitted. We are in the process of looking cross-jurisdictional to see what other provinces and territories do. After that, we are also engaging with the six municipal governments that changes to this act will impact. So we are looking to meet with them all coming up here in the spring, and once that is done we will be looking at their feedback and then developing a legislative proposal and taking it to the Legislative Initiative Committee for their review. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that is actually one of the areas that we are looking with our program renewal. Like I had said earlier, currently we are spending for homeowners you can access $100,000 every 10 years for renovations; for public housing it is costing us over $200,000 for 10 years. It does make sense that people who have shown, not for everyone but people who have shown that they have the ability to pay and they have been reliable that they would move into homeownership versus public housing. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do take my role as Minister very seriously and I recognize that as Minister I don't need to make aspirational statements to the department; that I can actually say this is the direction that we are taking. So we are looking at more comprehensive supports all across the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation with the goal, the single goal, that people can obtain, maintain, and retain housing supports. Rent supplements is one piece of that puzzle. So, yes, it will be something that we are seriously looking at implementing. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Martin.

At this point the survey is starting to be compiled. It's still open for feedback, as I agreed to leave it open for the extra month, so I haven't seen all the results for the survey, but I do make an assumption that tiny houses will be one of the issues on that survey.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do need some clarification. Are we talking about page 353 or 354? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sadly, at this point, we are still waiting for both organizations. The Salvation Army is still waiting for land tenure from the City of Yellowknife. I have tried to talk to Mayor Heyck and asked him if there is any way that he could speed that process up. The Yellowknife Women's Society, when they were doing the renovations to the daycare that they are moving into, found asbestos, so that is just being cleared up. We are expecting that, by the end of this month, their renovations will be done. At that point, they will need the Department of Education, Culture and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I cannot say exactly if the department has a copy of the report that the honourable Member has spoken of. I would be more than eager to obtain a copy, if he would like to provide it to us. We are looking at the implications of changing the act to accommodate this, so any information that he would be able to provide we would be more than happy to receive. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Some of the initiatives we are doing is preventative maintenance, where we will go in and actually check their furnaces, et cetera, so that we are on top of the game instead of behind the game. The other thing that we are doing is all new buildings and all retrofits are now using higher standard of insulation, triplepane windows, LED lights, and boiler systems, to name a few of the energy efficiency things that we are implementing. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have done some preliminary figures on what it would cost to actually take a residence out of core need. At this point, though, we still have to put it through Cabinet, so we will be putting that through. We're just finalizing up the figures and then we'll be putting it forward to Cabinet before we provide it to the Regular MLAs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.