Caroline Cochrane

The NWT Housing Corporation is always open to cost-effective solutions to provide needed housing within our communities. Should opportunities within the communities arise, then we’re certainly open to exploring them. The community involvement is really important to the Housing Corporation and all contractors hired by the Housing Corporation are actually expected to maximize our northern and our local content whenever possible. The Housing Corporation also monitors the contractors to ensure that they meet all the agreed terms and conditions in the contract including their local and their...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is correct.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Jim Martin will address that answer.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ll let Mr. Anderson answer that one.

I can’t specifically talk about programs that are offered by the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, but I can say as participants in the capital planning process with other government departments, the government considers distribution of projects so that we don’t overtax individual communities with excess projects in one year. The NWT Housing Corporation relies on the BIP, Business Incentive Policy, when contracting projects and this process includes adjustments for local involvement. The Business Incentive Policy evaluation process was designed to support local contractors in...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, it was just three in total. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Anderson would like to address that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have done that to the committee. If the committee would like another briefing on that, we are willing to do that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am a little bit not aware of this program or the New Deal; however, I’m being informed that self-governments would have to ask to draw down jurisdiction to able to do that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Working with the communities and getting the communities to actually prioritize their own needs is something that the Housing Corporation is working towards and will be a big focus within our community surveys that are coming out lately. Within these regions actually, we did get their priorities. Currently, we have two multi-year agreements to support the homeless priorities of the Nunakput communities, Sachs Harbour Community Corporation. We have funding in the 2016-17 budget for food programs, community homeless planning, community kitchens and food banks. The community itself identified...