Minister, my questions are clear. I'd like your answers to be clear as well. I don't want you to retract your explanations. From what I understood, you had made a commitment to create an independent fund, but that is not what you contend now. You're bringing up questions of an entirely technical nature.
So I'm going to ask another question, Mr. Chair.
In our opinion, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's surpluses should be used to eliminate the significant deficiencies in the development of affordable social housing. However, that is not currently the case.
Has your thinking on this issue progressed? Do you intend to hand over to the provinces the amounts of money necessary for them to accelerate social housing development?