Tom Beaulieu

Okay. I know what preventive maintenance is. I just wanted to know what marketing preventive maintenance meant.

Marci cho, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the committee would like to consider Tabled Document 50-18(2), Main Estimates, 2016-2017, and committee would like to consider the NWT Housing Corporation budget.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank the Minister for that response. Mr. Speaker, does the Minister believe that an individual that gets a goodpaying job can take themselves out of core need if they have a house that is not suitable and not adequate? Thank you.

I’d like to ask the Minister if she believes that the income support program can be used to eliminate core need.

Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to acknowledge and recognize the Seniors’ Society, particularly my auntie, Mavis Klause from Fort Resolution. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I’ll say one more thing on this. I’m not asking the Minister to ignore core need first of all, I’m asking the Minister to make sure that if there’s an affordability issue if there is an affordability issue then it should be coupled with adequacy or suitability or both. That’s true core need. An individual that doesn’t make enough money that’s renting an apartment off Northern Properties is not necessarily in core need as a standard that the Housing Corporation has to go and address. Does the Housing Corporation even have a program to address core need...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, it’s still my question. My question is what is a person living in a perfect house with enough bedrooms with no adequacy issues that doesn’t make enough money have to do with Housing Corporation? My understanding of core need is it’s pretty basic. It’s not that complex. You have to have an affordability issue, because if you’re making $250,000 or $300,000 a year, no matter what your house looks like, how small it is, you’re never going to be in core need. The same applies the other way. Unless you have a suitability or an adequacy issue, how on earth are...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is it for this line of questioning. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Minister if we will be talking about the development of options to support Aboriginal and local governments in meeting housing aspirations of their residents further on into the main estimates.

Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, many years ago just outside of Fort Resolution, actually about 40 miles down the highway or 60 kilometres down the highway or straight across the lake about 20 miles, they discovered lead-zinc. As a result of that, in the early 1960s a huge lead-zinc mine came into operation in the place that they named Pine Point. That mine operated from the early ‘60s until the late 1980s. At that point, I do believe it was the secondbiggest lead-zinc mine in the world. In the 1980s, the price of lead-zinc went down, and it was no longer feasible to do open pit operation...