Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Mr. Guy.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. Williams, welcome to the Chamber again. Committee has indicated we are on municipal and corporate affairs. According to our protocol, we are going to forego opening comments and be going directly into general comments. Mr. Blake.

I appreciate those vacancy statistics. It’s always good to keep current and I’m sure we’ll be asking those same questions when we do the operational budget here in the spring. The only advice I can give to the Minister and the department is to, you know, we tend to always talk about our overcrowding problems in non-market communities, but I stress that even in market communities such as Yellowknife and some of the major centres, we do have overcrowding as well, so I’m hoping we don’t lose sight of some of the needs and designs of all communities moving forward. I know you do, I just want to...

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Mr. Guy.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to welcome the Minister of the Department here today. As I said in some of my past comments when we have been doing either operational budgets or now capital budgets, and it’s hard sometimes to get these types of comments out of the Member for Range Lake, but I do appreciate where this department has been going. There has been a progression of success. There has been a transparency of information to the committee, which on all accounts, when we ask, is delivered on time and with the proper detail. So I applaud the Minister, I applaud the Housing Corp for...

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Continuing on with general comments, I have Mr. Bouchard.

Seeing none. Does committee agree we have concluded consideration of NWT Housing Corporation?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Mr. Guy, Ms. Gault, thank you for joining us this evening. Committee, as agreed upon earlier, there will be no opening comments. We will go directly into general comments. General comments, Public Works and Services. Mr. Yakeleya.