Caroline Cochrane

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

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. I’ll let Mr. Anderson answer that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is actually covered within the community housing services which is on page 361.

The increase in the senior population is really concerning to the Housing Corporation. We recognize that within the next five years, as much as 25 per cent increase in senior’s population within our territory. in response to that, we’re really focusing on building seniors’ independent living complexes within the communities and we’ve collaborated with Health and Social Services on the design of these complexes to make sure that they’re the most appropriate we can for our aging population. The most recently completed facility, like I said, was in Fort Liard and that will be fully operational...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently, the Hay River LHOs provide support to the Hay River Reserve. Like I say, we do have three communities in this fiscal budget that we are looking at developing LHOs in their communities. Hay River Reserve would be one of the ones that we would be examining within the next future budgets coming up. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I just want to respond by saying thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We’ll be marketing preventive maintenance programs, because we realize that preventive maintenance is the proactive way of addressing issues. For example with our seniors, we’ll be actually trying to go into their homes and to try to promote the preventive maintenance aspect as a key focus within our fiscal year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The survey is targeted to the communities. By “communities,” I mean the government if it’s selfgovernment and also the residents within each community. The needs assessments that we currently give is a breakdown and it’s an opinion survey, of course. It gives a breakdown on what basically people think are the core needs within their communities. It gives us something that’s statistical that says: this is what we should be basing our programs off. We’ve used it for many years, but it doesn’t really address what the community says. If the community is saying that, for...