Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Housing here this afternoon. As we move forward for the housing survey that is under way, there is one conducted in the fiscal year of 2009, my question to the Minister is: is that old material, or some of that recommendations or surveys that came out going to be utilized for this survey? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Masi. Minister for Northwest Territories Housing Corporation.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am making the assumption that the 2009 survey that the MLA is referring to is the Federal Needs Assessment Survey that was done. They do it every five years, so there was one done in 2009. I believe there was one done in 2014 as well. Some of that information will be taken into consideration; however, this survey is different than the Federal Housing Engagement Survey. This survey is to identify from the residents of the Northwest Territories, what they see for their own specific communities. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
My next question is: once this information is compiled, or this survey is compiled with the head office, will it be finalized in concert with the regional office to make sure that it is a regional survey plan as identified by the prior needs and suggestions?
As part of doing this survey we have committed that we would provide the findings of this survey to all municipal governments and all Aboriginal governments. They will have a What We Heard report identifying exactly what was said within their own communities.
If the regional offices are going to have a forum or have a gathering on the final draft of a regional review, would some of the community leaders such as the mayors or the presidents of land corporations or the chiefs of the bands be invited to have some input on the final regional draft?
Currently, our commitment is that we would provide the findings of the survey to the Aboriginal and municipal governments. If they wanted to provide some feedback to us, we would be open to receiving it. However, we have asked each municipal government and each Aboriginal government to fill in the survey, not only independently but as a group, individual groups. We have them identified within the survey, so we will be taking the feedback from the municipalities and the Aboriginal governments and we will be considering that impact as well within our survey. Will I be doing another open house on this? No, Mr. Speaker. We need to get to work. It is time. The survey is finished. We need to get down and do the work now.
Masi. Oral questions. Member for Sahtu.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My last question here is: compiled information is very valuable on the preplanning of the objectives needed for the region. Would the Minister consider sharing this information with some of the regional organizations to develop a bilateral approach for the needs on a possible federal submission? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Once all of the results in the survey are compiled, which we are in the process of doing right at this moment, we will be tabling the document. At that point, it can be used for whatever people would like to use it for.
Masi. Oral questions. Member for Kam Lake.
