Indeed, the huge surplus could be used to help address the social housing shortfall in Canada and Quebec. According to FRAPRU, it does not matter where the money comes from, we have to invest more in community and social housing. For years now, we have been asking that investment in social housing be doubled. We would like to see $2 billion of new money per year invested in social housing. For us, that would be the minimum, because ever since the federal government pulled out of social housing in 1994, and even before that when Brian Mulroney's Conservatives were in government, it created a shortfall of 50,000 units in Quebec alone. If we had maintained the same level of investments since 1994, we would not have this current crisis. There would be 50,000 more social housing units in Quebec today.
