I'm going to share the time available to me with my colleague.
I will be speaking to Mr. Saillant, since he says he often comes here to refresh our memory, something that should always be redone.
You are a symbol of perseverance, and at some point you will be heard, or else you will stop coming here.
You cited a number of figures, and yesterday other people told us that between 10% and 12% of families in Quebec were inadequately housed because too many people are living in the same dwelling. They also said that this varied with groups, that it was in the range of 20% to 30% in the case of single-parent families, aboriginal persons and seniors. As I said yesterday with regard to the homeless, 100% of them do not have a roof over their heads. That has to be said.
You drew an interesting parallel today by saying that the costs of a single F-35 would make it possible to subsidize 3,500 housing units. That means 8,760 hours of use of a housing unit per year because it is used 24 hours a day. For 3,500 units, that represents 30 million hours of use equivalent to the cost of a single F-35. That's striking.
I would like to hear what you have to say about the harmful effects of the end of the social housing agreements. I'm experiencing this in Hochelaga, where people seem to have forgotten that upon expiry of the mortgage agreement, the cooperative is old. Money that we don't have therefore has to be used to renovate the doors and roofs and to change the plumbing. In the worst cases I've seen, one-third of the coop is being sold to renovate the other two-thirds. So people are being evicted. This is the first effect that I would like to hear you talk about.
There is another. The end of the agreements also means the end of the subsidy granted to those who have low incomes enabling them to occupy the coops. So we're going to wind up with a stock of social housing coops.