Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for your contributions. They were very interesting presentations, with a lot of great ideas.
Mr. Kelly, when you talk about a pathway to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers, that's certainly music to my ears and hopefully to the rest of the committee.
Also, Mr. Lee, when you talk about the energy retrofit program, it's also music to my ears. Those are very important suggestions.
I'd like to start off by asking my questions to Mr. Morrison.
Mr. Morrison, Jagmeet Singh, our national NDP leader, and I met with housing advocates in Burnaby last Friday. What we found from the advocates, the organizations, and the individuals was that the Lower Mainland is in crisis. There are people who have just become homeless. There are people who are on the verge of becoming homeless.
One that struck me was a man named Edward, a tradesman who worked all his life and has a small pension. He said that in 14 days—and that's 12 days as of today—he would be homeless. He has been searching desperately for an apartment that will actually be within his price range.
Coming back to the issue of housing, do you feel we are in a crisis in certain regions of the country like the Lower Mainland, and what should the federal government do immediately to address that crisis?
Secondly, you raised the issue of 125,000 Canadian families being on waiting lists already. The housing plan the government has put forward will only build 60,000 units over 10 years. Where will we be in 10 years if we only build 60,000 units, when there are already 125,000 families waiting for housing? What does that mean over a 10-year period? How many more Canadian families will have to wait?