Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We do have the new co-pay program and a lot of folks have done very well with it. However, we do recognize the Member’s concern with some of the challenges that are faced with our seniors and those with disabilities. So I will commit to the Member that we will go back and do an assessment and revisit and maybe make some adjustments to the seniors and those who are disabled, people who are living on fixed incomes. Thank you.

I believe that’s what I said. We are challenged and we have the 19 doors now, the 55 we got through the Income Support Program, and other than that, that is where we are at right now. Thank you.

No, it’s one allocation over that 10 years. So if they were allocated $100,000, that’s what they would have to use. It’s not $100,000 a year for 10 years. It’s just $100,000 that is their portion of the Building Canada Plan.

Mr. Speaker, I’ll have to follow up on that. I understand there may have been some issues there. I’m not quite sure what the issues were, but I will follow up and share with the Member some of the information that I receive. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have a few projects that are here in the capital. We are just trying to find the dollar value. If we can’t come up with it right away, I will commit to getting that dollar value to the Member. Thank you.

Mr. Chair, we allocated X amount of dollars to every community, but they have to come up through an application process to justify the amount of money that we’re giving them. So, say if they were getting $110,000 – we’ll use that for an example – they have to have some projects, put an application in place for $110,000. If we just put it into one big pot and it was application-based then we’ve have competition from all 33 communities, so we thought doing it this way was probably one of the easiest ways to have some of the smaller communities that might be lacking some capacity to get their...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is a great facility in Aklavik and I was glad to be part of the opening. We still have a bit of work to do in the front of the building. We have some landscaping and that to do. I think that’s going to be taken care of next summer, I believe. I’m not sure about the deck. I would have to check to see if there is an opportunity in the future to put a larger deck on there.

The Member has been very diligent in bringing concerns of his constituents forward. Unfortunately, some of the decisions that are made are ones that he wasn’t aware of or because of one reason or another, folks were declined for some of the programs.

We have done a number of things to try and get as many people qualified for programs as possible. I think we have one affordable housing unit left in Detah and our desire would have been to find a suitable client to put into that unit. Failing that, as we did in some of the other communities, we have actually turned it into a public housing unit.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Part of the formula funding review was to make some adjustment, because we had found that some of the smaller communities had just about all the infrastructure they need at the moment. Some of their biggest challenges, I think, was the O and M on some of the infrastructure they have. So I think we’ve allowed them to use I think it was up to 10 percent of their CPI funding to help with the O and M.

On the larger centres, part of the formula funding review, again, was to go on a needs-based assessment. We recognize that some of the larger centres are facing more pressures...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s actually the Centre for Northern Families and it’s the whole building that’s going to be upgraded.