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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you very much for coming. I'm pleased to see that some of the recommendations in the quality of life report are being fulfilled. I still am concerned that the ombudsman has 95 complaints and that we still are facing lead pipes and inadequate wiring and leaky roofs and poor basements.
I'm a real estate broker by trade—yes, I even do appraisals—and I also do house inspections, which leads me to comment on some of the housing that I find to be totally inadequate. I won't get into that, because I understand $4,500 for a new roof versus $600 for a repair and then it's torn down. I understand all that stuff.
How many units? In the report it says 16,000 PMQs. You're talking about 12,000 units. There are 4,000 being disposed of. What are we going to end up with in the end—8,000, 6,000 units? What are we looking at?
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Lib. (ON)
Are you involved in the study going on within the military now of a review of the military and what its future is? Are you brought into that type of circle? Someone said they're looking for 5,000 additional people over what there presently are now in the forces just to be able to maintain the areas we're going into. That would put a fair amount of pressure on the housing unit to come up with adequate housing.
I know that we encourage home ownership because we want people to build some equity into their housing. The one thing I was involved in in the quality of life report.... I was a former manager of Royal LePage and Canada Trust, and I brought in a formula for making up the regional allowance basis for appraisal so that a person received market value for their house. If it went down, it used to be it had to go down 10% before any formula kicked in. I know that was changed, and I just wanted to make sure that was still being implemented.
Can you tell me what formula you use to determine a loss? If someone has a loss, is that loss made up using any particular formula?
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Lib. (ON)
Well, you're talking rent. I was talking home ownership, because we're encouraging that.
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Lib. (ON)
So you're not involved in a home ownership transfer plan. Maybe Colonel Rochette is.
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Lib. (ON)
There's a cap of $15,000 on a single family loss if the market goes down.
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Lib. (ON)
In some cases that probably wouldn't cover the loss if you're stuck with environmental problems or a base is moving and that's the only place you may have an opportunity to sell that. I would question it being fixed at $15,000, when a market may in fact drop more than that, but I'll look at that later.
Mr. Wood, you want to ask a question?
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Lib. (ON)
I guess that's on my list here, if you want.
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Lib. (ON)
I know Mr. Wood has to leave.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
In terms of the new units you propose to build, is this to CMHC standards or to local building code standards? How do you use that from province to province? How do you balance that off? And that leads me into your tendering process.
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Lib. (ON)
It's going to cost you a lot of money if you're renovating some of the ones I've seen.
At any rate, if you call for tenders, for instance, to build a particular building, do you keep it as a local tender, a regional tender, a provincial tender, or can anyone tender from right across the country?
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Lib. (ON)
What's the minimum square footage you would build for a single family unit?
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Lib. (ON)
Would that be the same if you were to reconstruct a barrack, say? Would there be a minimum square footage if you were doing a new barrack? I was in Esquimalt, and there's a new building out there with quite nice-looking units. I'm not sure of the square footage. So how would you determine that?
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Lib. (ON)
When we did the quality of life report, I can remember looking at some of the housing. I haven't gone back to see what improvements have been made, but the officers' quarters were done in brick and the general quarters were done in wood or whatever the other material was. So it was easy to find out where the officers lived, because they were all in the brick houses.
So when I'm asking about minimum square footage and those kinds of things....
Yes, the last pig had bricks, I know.
That's Jay's joke. Actually, I have a bricklayer at home, and that's what it says on his truck, that the last pig had bricks.
That's why I was asking about tendering in terms of minimum square footage and standards, because I couldn't find anything that would satisfy me, in my own mind, that standards were the same for all ranks.
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Lib. (ON)
On the units that have been built in the past, no building permit was required from the local municipality. I think that's why we're in so much trouble with housing today. In the ones that I inspected, some of the things that had to be done to bring them up to standard so they were livable, such as spraying the urea-formaldehyde and the asbestos and so forth, made basements unusable. So those units are basically tear-downs, and I hope that's being addressed so that people aren't going into units where they can't use the basement or there are some other problems with them.
I must admit, I haven't gone back, but I'd be interested in going back to Happy Valley--Goose Bay, for instance, to see whether those two brick houses up on the hill are occupied by privates.
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Lib. (ON)
In your book on page 7 it says, “When access to suitable or available accommodation is denied or constrained, DND and the CF are prepared to intervene to maintain the mobility of CF members.” What does that mean?
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