I am on the same page as my APCHQ colleagues with respect to the $1.8‑billion agreement that was announced, which is made up of $900 million each from the federal and provincial governments. The goal is to come up with lots of solutions for both private sector housing construction and community, social and family housing. I think that's important.
As you know, Canada is in an economic slowdown. My colleague made it very clear earlier that existing infrastructure in Quebec's biggest cities is operating at capacity. I agree with those who say we should take advantage of the economic slowdown to make massive infrastructure investments. We need to get busy building housing before the economy recovers for the private sector. Let's not end up two or three years from now wishing we had done it then.
We need to make massive investments in updating our infrastructure now. That's why we want the government to quickly come to an agreement with Quebec about infrastructure funding.