David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to the question the Member raises about people that are hard to house, we do have allowance to work with the client; we do have payment plans where people can work out if they have arrears; we do hold units for students that do go off to school for, I believe, a one-year period. So if they do two years, or if they come back to their home community, those units are reserved for those students. So we do have those arrangements in place. But I think the question of people that are hard to house, it does lead to our homeless issue and we have a committee...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this program is there to try to catch those people who are in a situation where they may have arrears. They are not able to pay down those arrears in order to get into EDAP or be able to go to a bank because they have a bad credit rating. So we want to be able to work with them to be able to get them back on their feet and assist them with a payment plan and allow them to move into these units, paying the utility costs for the two-year period and then be able to get them on their feet to purchase the unit outright through EDAP, or go to the bank and...

Thank you, Madam Chair. As soon as possible. As soon as I can get a phone number, give her a call, congratulate her and see how soon we can meet. So ASAP.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will allow the president to respond to that.

I couldn’t answer the Member’s question, but the last lease that we did enter into was in 1998, which was almost seven years ago.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we do try to work with communities and especially with our LHOs. We do find that we're trying to give more responsibility for the local housing authorities to build capacity, but also take on more housing responsibilities such as the seniors' maintenance repair program. We're asking the LHOs to do the work in house so they can hire another person on staff so that they have someone in the community that has a ticket and are able to build up their capacity in communities. But I think also the majority of our contracts that go to communities are tendered...

We are looking at 108 units; roughly about $19.9 million.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, we do have people from different areas. The committee will be chaired by the assistant deputy minister of the strategic planning from the Executive. Along with him will be somebody from the directorate of budget and evaluation, which is FMBS. Along with that, we will have our chief financial officer, Mr. Jeff Anderson, as part of this committee. Now, committee will go out to meet with the stakeholders through the local housing authorities, mayors, chiefs and MLAs, and also we will be reviewing it with other journal departments. We are hoping to have...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we are working with a few seniors’ societies to look at expanding their senior allocation. Aven’s Centre is one of them. We are also working with the group out of Hay River to look at seniors’ housing. Also, we can get the Member the historical allocations because we do have a lot of seniors’ facilities in a lot of communities. Most of them have been transferred over or used for other uses such as public housing or market housing or whatnot. So I would like to give the Member that and provide him that information in regards to historical numbers. But as...

I think this question is probably better answered by the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.