Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In the four or five times that I've been before this committee, the member and I have had some conversations in this regard. I'll speak specifically to housing as a particular measure.
We believe as an industry that a way.... Well, I can give a quick anecdote. This morning when we met in a hotel, the waiter came into the room—and he knows who we are—and he said, “You know what? There are two things you guys need to worry about: putting roofs over people's heads and making people know that there is food on the table.” It's an anecdote, but it gets to the point.
With respect to housing, we've suggested that one of the major issues is that it tends to be an income problem. There are places, and we talked about Winnipeg as an example, where there are specific issues we need to deal with, where we need to build new housing. But in other parts of the country a portable housing allowance would help to deal with that and an expenditure in that regard would be an effective way of getting people good housing that is available right now. That would be an effective way of dealing with a part of the social issue happening in this country.