Mayor Bell, I want to thank you for raising housing as an issue. I was president of a housing co-op when the last federal housing program died. We used to build 2,800 to 3,000 units a year in Manitoba—that was our share of the national affordable housing initiative—up until 1993, when the Liberals killed the very last semblance of any affordable housing program. If you were to take 3,000 units a year for the last 16 years, that would have been 48,000 units of affordable housing in Manitoba built in that period of time, had we carried on.
Really, I suppose, all our work should be toward a national poverty reduction strategy. Can you speak further on the importance of this in even a relatively small community like Selkirk?