Human Resources committee  A myriad of factors come into play. To give you a really good example, we built new units in Dawson City. Because of the permafrost—it's a discontinuous permafrost in that community—they tend to have to dig down 15 to 20 feet. One contractor broke his backhoe trying to excavate a

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Our current statistics, and we do them monthly, are in the neighbourhood of a waiting list of 85 in Whitehorse for social housing. From the body that delivers for us, our agency, the Whitehorse Housing Authority, approximately 50 of those would be singles a

Human Resources committee  I'd like to make one quick comment. The news article you referenced from yesterday deals with the extension of the affordable housing initiative, which I believe was announced by the Government of Canada last September or October. This is an issue that I discussed in our presenta

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Before I begin, I want to say thank you very much for coming and thank you very much for inviting us. We don't have many opportunities like this. This is very helpful for us. In the presentation I'm going to give today I'd like to highlight some of the acc