Social housing is a success story in Canada. It has been a success story in many provinces. In the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, just to name three, they all had provincial social housing programs that complemented or worked with the federal social housing program. Those programs were very effective and they continue to be recognized around the world. I continue to get calls from housing experts who come to visit Canada and want to see our highly successful housing programs. All those social housing projects were funded under programs that were terminated in the early 1990s. We have a relic of a program that continues to provide good homes.
Incidentally, the federal government did fund over 600,000 truly affordable, good-quality homes from 1973 to 1993, right across the country. Those homes still provide good-quality, affordable housing for the people of Canada. We don't now have a national social housing program. The federal program provides a small capital subsidy to assist the housing developer to build a project. That subsidy varies among particular programs. It can go from as small as $25,000 a unit to $65,000 or $75,000 a unit, but it isn't a social housing program. Many social housing providers are finding, under the federal program, that they simply cannot develop units.