Minister of Housing.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is directed to the Minister of Human Resources. It’s in regard to my Member’s statement where I showed a wage disparity between P1s and P2s somewhere in excess of almost $20,000. These are employees of the government.

We just went through a major court case on pay equity across the country between the federal employees and Government of the Northwest Territories employees. It seems there’s a discretion between P1s and P2s. I’d like to ask the Minister of Human Resources why there is such a discretion between the P1 employees and P2 employees of an excess of...

Mr. McLeod.

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted

Mr. Polakoff.

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 133-16(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates, 2011-2012, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

One of the issues, just in response to the Minister’s response earlier in regard to the questions raised by the Members, is the whole area of the seniors repair programs. I think a lot of challenges we’re seeing in our communities is we wait for a lot of these contracts to be let and you’re only talking $1,000 or $2,000 of any emergency repairs that have to be done. I think if we could work out arrangements with the local maintenance staff through the local LHOs and give them the money and ask that they include those seniors in those communities as part of their ongoing maintenance anyway...

Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the issues that always comes to our attention is how we make a determination or evaluation of where houses should go. Over the years we have had core housing needs surveys done in regards to different core needs in different communities. Especially one thing that we find is, where we don’t have LHOs it seems to be a real challenge. I think that with the government’s decision to allow those units that were built in the communities where we don’t have local housing authorities, I think that we should continue to have some type of community, I wouldn’t call them...

Mr. Minister, if you have any materials that could be provided to the Member in regards to his questioning.