Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate your coming here today.
No doubt I could echo many of the sentiments expressed by my colleagues on this side of the table concerning the crisis in housing. I've been in many in Labrador where the conditions are deplorable; waiting lists are long for housing. We're all trying to find a way out of it. It seems to me we're always in a catch-up position and the only way to catch up is if we have an accelerated approach. In general, I would think that is the type of management we must have here in terms of an accelerated approach and accelerated investment in order to catch up. That's a general comment.
I have some specific questions. Were housing trusts ever set up for the northern housing initiative and the off-reserve housing initiative? In the budget documents and in your presentation, Ms. Dansereau, there were housing trusts.