Caroline Cochrane

Sorry, Mr. Speaker. I thought it was Housing for a second. Yes, so we can talk about it. At the beginning, the three positions that the MLA is referring to, we are still working on it, and the reason is because within the Sutcliffe Report there were some recommendations on job descriptions. We also felt it was important, so we consulted with stakeholders in the areas, the applicable stakeholders and the staff to develop more comprehensive job descriptions. Because we are looking at being able to utilize our skills in a more appropriate way, so we're hoping that we can actually have positions...

The next steps once we compile the survey results, all of the surveys are entered into what's called the Survey Monkey. Some of the input that has come has been through letters through emails, not all have come through surveys, so we have people actually that are manually entering that data into the Survey Monkey. It will be broken up. The Survey Monkey is able to break things up by communities as the MLAs see when we produced the numbers. It's been able to break things up by if it's a government worker, if it's someone in housing, if it's public housing, if someone in home ownership. We're...

We felt that we did a comprehensive advertising of getting the survey out. We had put it in newspapers, we had put radio advertisements out, we had talked to the local housing organizations and the government service officers, but evidently we still had some work to do. So with the announcing of bringing the survey for one more month, we will be doing more of a strategic radio campaign that we promote it two/three times a week at least. We're going to be looking for times that we know that community people are listening to the radios. We will be promoting it again trying to push our local...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to start by welcoming Diana Bui, who is my constituency assistant. It is her first time in the House. I would also like to recognize Erin Curry, who is one of our constituents from Range Lake. Good friend of mine, Alisa Praamsma, her husband, Jack Bourassa. Although not constituents, very good friends I consider close to my heart. Although Rami is gone, I really want to recognize Rami Kassem as well, who is a constituent in my riding. I want to offer my heartfelt sympathy. I am hoping that somehow they will see that love will outshine hate, and not all of...

I do recognize that the Members have issues that they want to ensure that I push through during this Legislative Assembly, but the Members have also asked for transparency and accountability. So within that, in trying to honour the wishes around transparency and accountability, we need to do due diligence, and that does mean consulting with all stakeholders when any major legislative changes are to be made.

Since the meeting that we had last night was my first meeting with the NWT Association of Communities, we never actually set a date. We did agree that we would meet, and so as soon as I know more when the date is confirmed, I will let the honourable Member know.

Yes, I will make sure that we actually give the Members an update during the next session. Thank you.

At this point, the department has begun to implement a couple of recommendations. The main one is that we're looking at undertaking the work that's involved to establish a Western Canada Lottery Commission within the department.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled "Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Annual Report 2015-2016."

Unfortunately, the mayor for the City of Yellowknife was not at the meeting last night. We are still committed to working with the City of Yellowknife; however, we have an obligation whenever we make any legislative changes that we actually consult with all of the concerned parties, all of the municipal governments concerns. So we will abide by that.