Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Auditor General, for this report.
In your report, you indicate a number of facts and findings, one of which is that there was “no meaningful improvement in housing conditions in First Nations communities.” For the period between 2015 and 2022, you indicated that “the percentage of homes in need of major repairs decreased from 20.8% to 19.7%”, but the homes that “needed to be replaced increased from 5.6% to 6.5%.”
This, to me, would indicate that there are more homes prohibitive to repair than there are those that need general repairs, which are, at least percentage-wise, receiving more repairs.
Can you shed further light on why there are more homes that cannot be replaced, yet there seem to be more homes that are receiving repairs?