David Krutko

These are serious allegations and I hope the Minister will take some leadership here. These allegations where an individual cannot go into a housing authority and pick up an application, is told that we will not give you an application, are against the Human Rights Act. I’d like to ask the Minister if he can write a letter to the local housing authorities making them aware that they cannot discriminate an individual from picking up an application and they have every right to fill out that application and process it. I’d like to ask the Minister if he could commit to writing that letter.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If we can get a breakdown of exactly what that $1 million is. It’s not really clear. It’s a million dollar item but it seems like sure it’s to finish the building, but what has to be concluded? Is it interior work? Is it plumbing? Is it electrical? Is it paving the driveway? What is the million dollars expended for?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is directed to the Minister of the Housing Corporation. It’s in regard to my Member’s statement and under the Human Rights Act there are certain obligations we have as governments to ensure that we also do not discriminate or harass our clients, whether it’s social housing or whatnot. Under the act it’s clear that it’s against the law to discriminate against a tenant, rental applicant, based on the personal characteristics or grounds. I mentioned the whole area of race, religion, age, disability, sex, gender, marital status, political beliefs, social...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, the question I had is this is a brand new facility and again we are making an investment for the wood pellet boiler again for 600-and-some thousand, but being a brand new facility you’d think this would have been built into the design and construction of the facility, and not to have to come forward with a supp in which the capital expenditure was already made. I don’t know why you couldn’t find the money within to do that, than have to come forward for a supp. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Do you have any idea exactly when we will see the grand opening of the facility? Is it going to be September 31st, just before the election?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do look forward to that information.

Again, I think that we have to be realistic here that we are operating under a tight timeline and we do have to ensure that we are able to accomplish the work that has to be done, and more importantly, realistically, a lot of cases, because of weather conditions or basically the rain and the weather does hinder a lot of our timelines, and again, regardless if it’s the Deh Cho Bridge or any other project, we do have to be aware that we do operate in an environment that is not friendly and I think that we have to be realistic on...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A lot of these dollars are tied to the federal stimulus funding. There was a deadline date that was set and I know it was carried forward. Realistically, can we conclude these projects within the timelines that we’re looking at, and more importantly, with the capital investment, then, from the carry-overs from previous years? Can we realistically accomplish all the work that needs to be done and that we don’t find ourselves having to either to pay back these dollars or lose these dollars because of the timeline that’s been put forward in regard to having these projects...

I notice at the bottom of the page you do have $3.8 million for bridges, culverts, structural rehabilitation. I’m just wondering, in light of the situation on Highway No. 7, is there a possibility that any of these dollars can be re-profiled to deal with that crisis we find on Highway No. 7 today?

Maybe the Minister can tell us exactly when he is going to get around to the higher-cost communities. It’s great to say let’s do this all with the capital in the South Slave region. When are we going to see these capital investments in our high-cost, smaller, isolated communities?

I’m just wondering where Shale Creek is.