Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s a 20year needs assessment, so we would need $30 million every year for 20 years. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Actually, this is one example that I can say yes, that money does fix all issues because, if you do have enough money, you can actually make sure that your house is suitable and adequate Yes, but it does come down to having the right financial capital to be able to make those changes.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The rate increases are usually done by the Power Corporation, so we’re working with them on that. We will be communicating to all the residents, though, because we’re hoping to implement this by August. There will be communication sent out to everyone that is using our units before that, to give them enough notice. The whole goal is to get people to do more of, just, conservation. We know that the biggest driver or the biggest savings for utilities is conservation, so we need to get people more focused in that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are a number of variables to address the whole core need of the NWT and we can do that. It would take a bit of time and a bit of work but we can produce that. Of course, it wouldn’t be an exact science because there are differences. The bigger issue for me, though, is that we have an understanding amongst the three territories that we will not advocate individually; that we will advocate as tri-territorial which gives us more power, and unless I can get the other territories to do the same then it sounds like I’m going to be advocating for the Northwest Territories...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Actually, you will see that set up fairly soon. We are just trying to get office accommodation at this point, and then you will have three positions within the Fort Liard community. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

That assessment is made on if we were to renovate and to bring all of our stock up to a 50year life span. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I don’t think it’s a really easy answer to say that one program can actually eliminate core need, especially when you look at the core need does talk about adequacy and suitability as well as affordability. Income support does address some of the affordability issues, perhaps not all of them, especially in the market communities where our rents are so high. But adequacy and suitability are not areas that, in my opinion, income support would be addressing.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do appreciate the Member’s comment and correction. It is nine cents per kilowatt hour. I apologize for that. What we are doing to try to address that, as well, is within this fiscal budget, we are looking at increasing it by another six cents per kilowatt hour to make it 15 cents per kilowatt hour, which is still lower than the general population is paying, but promotes independence within the population. There is also a cost savings when the public pays for their power versus the GNWT paying for the power. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m not too sure what more I can say. The national standard says that it’s one of the three: affordability, suitability or adequacy, and my direction earlier in the House said that I have to work towards those national standards. Unless the House is willing to change the motion then I need to be able to work towards the national standard as defined. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Actually, some of our smaller communities actually don’t take as much revenues because the population is small and the amount of unit that we, Public housing, has in there are small too, so we don’t need as much financial resources within those communities to be able to address their needs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.