We came here to Ottawa last week to speak on that subject. We gave our views on that bill, of which we are in favour, and hoped that Quebec's jurisdiction with respect to housing would be recognized.
However, in our view, recognition of the right to housing is, I would say, a long-term challenge. There are steps that have to be followed and bills that can help us. We have an urgent matter in the immediate future, the next budget and the upcoming cuts to funding that had been increased in the past two years as a result of the economic recovery. That is having extremely dramatic consequences for people, for social housing tenants, for people who live in low-cost housing. In some cases, they have been asked to leave the buildings because renovation work urgently had to be done there. Currently, with the cuts to federal funding, they are being told that they will have to wait another year before returning to their units. That has very practical consequences for people. When we say that there are subsidies for the equivalent of only 413 social housing units when the needs are so great, when we talk about 203,000 renting households in Quebec that spend more than half of their incomes on housing, that's also a dramatic situation.