Thank you for your question. If you don't mind, I will answer in English.
This is the first national housing strategy that we have seen in generations. There is some debate among academics on whether this is the first in history or not; I'll leave that to the academics.
Clearly, as I mentioned previously, the federal government had been involved in affordable housing, and supported it through the implementation of operating agreements throughout the postwar generation—the sixties, seventies, eighties. We saw CMHC and the federal government back out of implementing any new operating agreements in roughly the early nineties, and since that time we've seen very little federal engagement in the social housing sphere. Clearly the national housing strategy marks the return of the federal government to a leadership position with respect to affordable housing.
It is a 10-year plan. I know there has been a lot of welcoming feedback on that long-term element of the plan. However, there are some components of it, as I mentioned in my remarks, that are of concern.
For example, the federal community investment will essentially see operating agreements for federal operating agreement holders being extended up to 10 years, but the federal government has signalled that it wants to then essentially wean itself off the subsidy model. That's raised several concerns, particularly for housing providers who serve the most low-income populations or very vulnerable populations. I think we are looking for some signals from the federal government that, yes, this is 10 years, but that the federal government will remain in the business of social housing beyond that. I know it's difficult for this current federal government to be able to commit to something beyond a 10-year time frame.
One thing we do hope for, which will essentially bind the federal government to maintaining its presence in social housing, will be the introduction—we hope this fall—of the right-to-housing legislation that Minister Duclos has promised. We're hopeful that we'll be seeing that in the House this fall.