Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, this will not take away our ability to provide housing for our residents. We’ve been doing market housing for about 15 years. We have a huge success rate within the communities. The community has asked us to keep it. Not only do they appreciate it, they require it in order to maintain services such as teachers, social workers, nurses, and now RCMP within our communities, they rely on the NWT Housing Corporation to provide those units. The cost of the RCMP housing actually will be the operating and maintenance will be charged back to them and they will be paying market...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Previously, Aboriginal governments have come forward and wanted to take ownership of their housing needs and we tried to work with them and those attempts weren’t really successful. I am really committed to, and I believe, like I had stated many times, that self-governance is important for Indigenous people, and within that true self-governance means that you have to take on ownership of your housing, your children, et cetera. I am really more than open to working with an Aboriginal organization that’s willing to try out a pilot project, but I really want to stress that I...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again I am a bit confused with the question. If it is the homelessness initiative, that is the housing assistance funding. That is the $3,000 application base. If we are talking about the Small Community Homelessness Fund, that is also application based. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That was actually federal money that was one-time funded. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories has made a commitment it its mandate to work in partnership with other orders of government to address affordable housing requirements and to support Aboriginal local governments in their housing aspirations and initiatives to address homelessness. We are delivering on that commitment, and I am pleased to tell you today that a new partnership initiative between the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation and K’atlodeeche First Nation that will let us deliver housing services and programs on reserve land. The core housing need for the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We’re projecting that the scope of work for the project managers will be very small. It would just be during the construction phase. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want clarification on the question. Is he asking the number of staff? Or is he just wanting clarification that it is what is covered under here?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The process to fund the communities was actually put out a couple of years ago. We submitted out to all the communities. Actually, at that time we had funding to look at four. Only three communities came forward at that time. We worked with the three communities to set them up. They are just getting structured in now because it takes some time within government. When we look at expanding that, then we would be again submitting a request to all communities that don’t have that in and asking them to come forward and see if they would be interested. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Within a month the Members will have that information. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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