We're all dealing with the housing crisis. We're talking about it day in, day out. People are struggling to pay astronomical rents. The developer-driven model hasn't worked. Ms. Atwin got the butt end of it yesterday, when I identified that the private sector has not solved the unaffordable housing crisis anywhere in the world.
I understand the need for partnership. I know that all parties around this table have talked about partnership to create affordable housing with government buildings and government lands. I'd like to hear the spirit of that, because there are underutilized lands and buildings. It needs to be done with free, prior and informed consent, and it must be done with the inclusion of indigenous people in those decisions.
We need to make sure we can't have a repeat of the Greenbelt, where public lands end up in developers' hands. Public lands actually belong in public hands, so we want to make sure that happens. It happened in B.C. that Crown lands ended up in the private sector.
I want us to study it, and I'm going to move a motion:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee undertake a study to identify opportunities within the Government of Canada's real property portfolio to build non-market housing; that the committee invite witnesses from the Treasury Board, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, as well as the President of the Treasury Board and the Minister for Housing, Infrastructure and Communities; that the study should be at least four meetings; and that the committee report its findings to the House.