Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I agree with the amendment and I will explain why.
Everyone here agrees that there is a serious housing crisis in Canada, that homelessness is reaching record highs—in Quebec, it is unprecedented—and that there is work to be done. I don't want to be partisan, but I think the best way to find solutions to this crisis is to move motions for the committee to undertake studies that would enable us to get to the bottom of things. I don't think this motion will do that.
We can already report that the committee approves of the minister's comments. I think that takes into account the minister's comments. I imagine that, in doing so, we are conveying our comments to him. The minister has already come to testify on this subject. We hope he will be able to come back before us. There are other motions to that effect that we could consider. I think that, when he appeared, the minister admitted that one of the reasons we ended up in this situation today was that successive governments had not invested public funds in housing.
Many motions on housing and homelessness have already been moved. Instead of dealing with the motion currently before us, I think it would be more appropriate to conduct a study on the issues facing us today, in order to try to find solutions and resolve the situation.