Mr. Speaker, we learned from the budget that allocations to Canada Mortgage and Housing will be cut by almost $215 million in 1995-96. More than half this amount, over $105 million, was earmarked for public housing.
My question is for the acting prime minister. Would he not agree that, by cutting public housing subsidies this way, the government is directly attacking the basic needs of the most vulnerable families in our society, contrary to the promises made in the red book?