First, I'll answer with regard to government assistance over the past two years. It is entirely true that more money has been granted, which partly enables us to catch up, but not completely. We deplore the fact that the effort was made for two years and that now nothing further is being done. There will only be crumbs left, approximately $125 million for the construction of new social housing across Canada. That's peanuts. That's the smallest amount of money the federal government has allocated for new social housing since 2001.
So efforts have indeed been made over the past two years but those efforts are coming to an end. We aren't at all convinced that the economic crisis is over, but we definitely know that the effects of that crisis continue. So we are asking that these budgets be maintained over the next few years rather than cancelled. That goes for the funding granted to the provinces, the aboriginal and northern communities and to the people who live in social housing, who have managed to renovate a small part of their dwellings in the past few years, but for whom this is over.
So we're not telling you you've done a bad job over the past two years, but that not everything has been repaired and that we have to continue, that we have to go further. With regard to the construction of new social housing, we have to invest bigger amounts than those granted over the past two years.