David Krutko

Okay, we’re on page 5-44, again, information item, active positions.

Thank you. I’d like to ask the Minister if he could give me a breakdown of exactly which communities received these federal dollars, what size the communities are and out of the 33 communities in the Northwest Territories, which ones weren’t able to take advantage of these programs. Can I have that in writing? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, one of the areas you hear a lot of concerns about from the local contractors is that they’re building to take advantage of Housing Corporation contracts because the way that they design those contracts in which they don’t have the capacity to either bid or bond some of these contracts, especially the contracts which are basically supply, ship and erect. I think that a lot of them feel more comfortable dealing with the labour only aspect of contracts where the Housing Corporation provides the material, brings it into our communities and they construct them. That...

Agreed. Okay, in regard to moving on to page 5-44, active positions by regions, again, information item. Are there any questions? Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regards to my Member’s statement, one thing we continue to see is have and have-not communities in the Northwest Territories, especially the small and remote communities, which were the reason for a lot of communities not being able to take advantage of the stimulus funding in regards to Building Canada funds. The reason that we get this is because they have substantial deficits or they are unable to identify matching funds.

Mr. Speaker, I, for one, feel that this government should reach out to those communities and try to find ways to ensure that they are able to...

Thank you. Next on the list is Ms. Bisaro.

General comments? Detail. Okay, we can turn to page 5-41, financial summary. At this time I’d like to suggest we defer that page. Agreed?

Just in regard to the latest report on the needs surveys, how soon is the department going to get back to us on how they’re going to deal with some of these statistics indicating core need, adequate housing, and stuff like that? I know that we’ve just concluded the allocation of units, because I was pointing out to Mr. Beaulieu that Colville Lake is getting $375,000 yet they’re at 95 percent core need. For that amount of money I don’t think we can really solve the problem. Hopefully this department will be able to identify those areas of intention, especially now that we have a needs survey...

Moving on to page 5-49, financial and infrastructure services, operations expenditure summary. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Welcome, witnesses. General comments in regards to the Housing Corporation. Mr. Yakeleya.