Mr. Chair, first of all, there is a mistake in the French version of the housing amendment here. Instead of saying
“affirmé par le droit international” should read “confirmé par le droit international”.
There's a spelling difference.
Also, “affirmé” is a direct translation of “affirmed”, but wouldn't mean the same thing in legal terms.
So I put that forward.
Moving on to the substance of LIB-10, the proposed legislation recognizes the importance of housing to the well-being of all persons in Canada and reflects the key principles of a human rights-based approach to housing. In particular, the legislation requires that the national housing strategy focus on improving housing outcomes for those in greatest need.
The NHS act would establish a national housing council with diverse representation, including people with lived experience of housing need or homelessness—something which is tremendously important to this government and ought to be to all members of Parliament—to provide advice to the minister responsible for housing as well. Under the proposed legislation, the annual report of the federal housing advocate must contain recommended measures within the government's authority to address taking into account the housing policy.
That's the vision here.
Also, since I'm at it, I'll just add that NDP-11, which will be put forward later on, is certainly worthy of consideration but I believe would require a royal recommendation. As far as dealing with the vision that it sets out in principle, it's certainly worthy of consideration. I believe that we will be seeing something to address the goals that it seeks to attain. That should be forthcoming sometime very soon.