Tom Beaulieu

Thank you. I don’t wish to belay the issue, but I’m still not quite understanding how the system works. If there is no money allocated in a prior year but the product is already there, there’s money allocated this year to apply the product. I’m wondering if this substantiation is just incomplete or if there’s another way that the product was purchased.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First I’d like to ask if you could recognize Laura Boucher in the gallery from Fort Resolution.

Mr. Speaker, can the Minister advise this House when we can see some sort of program roll out so we can examine the long-term solution that the Minister speaks of? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Today I talked about the lack of adequate housing for teachers in Lutselk’e. I would like to follow up on my statement with questions for the Minister of the NWT Housing Corporation. Mr. Speaker, will the Minister commit to working with me, and the local district education authority and the community, to see that an immediate solution is found for this situation? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am interested in having the department look at expanding the Access Road Program. I think that we have several reasons for using the Access Road Program. I think one here has been to access gravel, as is the case in Tuktoyaktuk. I think Mr. Krutko has been asking for the same type of access to gravel for construction purposes and so on. The case has been used for better construction of infrastructure within the communities and so on.

There is also accessing communities, which, I guess, is essential, the development of access roads to access communities like Dettah...

Mr. Speaker, as is the case for addressing specific groups like seniors and singles and so on, specific communities also have different priorities and different core needs. Can the Minister tell me if the NWT Housing Corporation has a strategy to address communities with the highest need on a priority basis? Thank you.

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Today I talked about programs and policies of the NWT Housing Corporation. I would like to follow up my Member’s statement with questions for the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation.

Mr. Speaker, can the Minister tell me if an evaluation of the four new programs, or programs that were introduced a few years ago, has been undertaken to determine their effectiveness in taking clients out of core need? Thank you.

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to talk about programs and policies of the NWT Housing Corporation. Having just returned from Fort Resolution, I find that housing is still a big problem with many residents of Tu Nedhe.

Mr. Speaker, I think part of the problem may be changes made a few years ago with the corporation’s housing programs. Unfortunately, when the corporation revised programs from 14 programs down to their current four programs this created a whole new set of problems for housing clients.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Assuming that the needs survey is roughly along the lines of the past needs survey as far as core need goes, can the Minister advise me if you will provide direction to the NWT Housing Corporation to ensure there are strategies in place to specifically target core need? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, it takes different types of programs to address different types of need. For example, seniors groups and singles groups may have different programs to address their needs. I’d like to ask the Minister if the Minister can tell me if the NWT Housing Corporation has a strategy to address core need levels of the various groups such as seniors, singles and various sized families. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.