Sure, and if I may say so, Mr. Chair, we fully agree. One of our three key asks was to look at 100,000 new social housing units across Canada to meet the growing needs.
Let's face it. All you have to do is read the paper any day of the week and you can see what's happening with housing prices in the private market in Canada in Vancouver and Toronto, etc. The private market is not going to be able to meet the needs of the lower income half of our population in this area.
I would add one last point, though. You mentioned that you support the expansion of social housing, and obviously we do as well, but I think there's also a number of really innovative programs within social housing units that are designed to actually get people out of social housing. Ultimately, in the housing spectrum, it's advantageous to see people move into a higher income bracket and therefore move into more of the private market. That's clearly not possible for everybody, but there are some really interesting models in that respect.
I know that social housing is clearly a need for many Canadians, but I think many providers also understand the value in seeing people ultimately move on. Income supplement programs and educational programs, etc., are in place in a number of provider models. That's something we would like to see augmented and scaled up so that additional providers can do similar things.