Thank you. This is a question for the Minister of Housing. My question to the Minister is whether she will consider taking the initiative in forgiving the mortgage arrears of the constituents who did not understand anything about mortgages and were not informed in their own language. Thank you.
Thank you, Member. Minister for Housing NWT.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. I will take this back to the department as well. And I just wanted to remind the Member as well too that we do have to follow the Financial Management Act as well too, and when we're going to be looking at writing off debts to this government it is something that is actually brought forward to this Assembly. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Well, they are the executive council and they can change the policy. It is within their they can they have the authority to change the policy. So, like, in the past, FMB rolled out $4 million for a business loan, so I know they can do it. They can change the policy. They have the that is within their authority.
But I just want to ask the Minister, will the Minister commit to transferring North Slave district office to Tlicho region that deals specifically with Tlicho? Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you, Madam Speaker. At this point, we don't see any transfers happening to the Tlicho for a district office to be operating out of the Tlicho region. Right now, they are considered out of the North Slave but I can follow up with the Member. We also do have our working table with the Tlicho government as well too, and I haven't this hasn't been highlighted at those tables, that they had brought this up as a concern to the government. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Yes. Well, I've been hearing from a lot of my constituents, because sometimes when they have housing issues they have nobody to go to. And that's what I keep hearing from the people. So when they do transfer the North Slave district office and hiring more local people, then I think the program will be more effective and efficient because right now it's not working. It is not working in our region, and everything is in Yellowknife. So that's all I wanted to say. And it's more of a comment, but it's up to her if she wants to respond to it. Thank you.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. The North Slave office does travel quite frequently into the Member's riding as well. But I can bring this back to the department. But like I had said, is that it hasn't been brought up at the Indigenous government table, and it wasn't highlighted with our housing working group table as well too. But I can follow up with the Member. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Thank you. Member for Yellowknife North.
