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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this is not the first time I’ve raised this issue and it’s good to know that the Minister is now going to have a look at them and assess them. But I raised this issue with the Minister and his staff not so long ago. I want to know, since I raised it with them last time, have there been any renewals exercised for five-year terms? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Next on the list I have Mr. Menicoche.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to turn our attention to something that is of great concern to many parents and guardians of young children not only my riding of Hay River, but also, I am sure, throughout the Northwest Territories. The issue I am speaking of is children with life-threatening allergies who are attending schools in the NWT. For example, Mr. Speaker, I am aware of a child in Hay River who has an allergy to peanuts. If this child comes in contact with peanuts, any by-product of peanuts, or any substance that has been contaminated by peanuts, he will...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Then, Mr. Chairman, in view of people who are currently making decisions to, you know, sell their homes, forfeit their existing living accommodations to move into public housing units, which at this time are not costing them anything regardless of their income, would it not be fair on the part of the government to advise these people that perhaps there are changes coming, maybe the subsidy will become taxable income, maybe there will be a charge assessed for rent, those kinds of things that could be coming? Because people are making decisions based, right now, on...
Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Just for the information of Members, on the list now I have Mr. Ramsay, Menicoche, McLeod, Villeneuve. I would like to speak under general comments after that, and then we’re starting on round two. Mr. Ramsay.
The answer was no. Okay, thank you, Mr. Chairman. So when I was bringing up the issue that there is no means test applied to seniors occupying public housing units in that last set of questions, and I asked how we -- and again, through no fault of the seniors, but it’s a government program -- how do we rationalize that to the fact that we are saying that we have a critical housing shortage everywhere, and yet we will continue to build and offer seniors’ units for zero rent? When I asked that question, I was given some answer that had something to do with ECE and assessments and subsidies....