Good afternoon, everyone.
I am not a member for the same region as my colleague. He is from Montreal, the member for the constituency of Hochelaga, where housing needs are urgent. I'm a member from the city of Laval, where there is also a housing problem. This puts pressure on homelessness. Since Laval is a Montreal suburb and there are a lot of bungalows there, you get the impression that people are comfortable there. However, there is also a lot of pressure this respect.
I can't understand why, in 2010, we're talking about buying 65 F-35 aircraft at a cost of $9 billion and can still tolerate the fact that entire families are without housing and do not have access to affordable, adequate housing. It's inconceivable.
Mr. Saillant, I wanted to ask you what figures you currently have on Laval. It seems to me that more than 1,000 applications for affordable housing administered by the Laval municipal housing board are pending. To my mind, the situation is a problem, and I'm doing a lot of work on it.