Very good.
As you heard earlier, we are building, partly with your support, the national housing strategy. All MPs, all stakeholders, and all Canadians are invited to contribute to that. It's a very important strategy, as I signalled earlier. It's the first in four decades. It's there for a very simple reason. It's there to tell us in Ottawa how we can re-engage our federal government in assisting the housing needs of our families.
We've been relatively absent over the past years. That's not a partisan comment, because this dates back some years. Now we want to know how to get back again. To do that, we need to engage again with our stakeholders, communities, and other levels of governments.
In that area particularly, our country is ready. The signals I receive are clear: people have been waiting patiently, and now they want to engage with us to work in partnership for all kinds of Canadians, including lower income Canadians. The housing condition spectrum ranges from homelessness, which is the most dire circumstance Canadians can find themselves in, through to shelters and transitional housing, covering, among other things, the needs of victims of family violence. Also, there are the very difficult conditions in which many of our indigenous sisters and brothers find themselves in regard to social housing, which has been neglected for some years by our governments. There is also the need to address, as we did yesterday, some of the challenges we find in markets where house prices are both high and, perhaps, non-sustainable.