The Canadian Medical Association has made recommendations along those lines. They have consulted Canadians, too. As I said earlier, 9 out of 10 senior Canadians say that housing is a number one priority and that they want to remain in their homes. They also want it to be affordable. That's the key here.
As we develop a national housing strategy, I'm encouraging the committee and all members of Parliament to make sure to advocate for a strong component of affordable and accessible housing, which will benefit a large portion of our seniors. We'll have an envelope nationally for a housing strategy, but we have to ensure with our advocacy that a large proportion of that would be directly related to affordability and accessibility for seniors. Currently, we have a lot of seniors housing that is not accessible. I've heard that much of that housing was built 20 or 30 years ago, and I've met quite a few seniors in my riding who are in apartment buildings with stairs and no elevator. They're seniors and they have to move.
It's very unfortunate that the current housing is not accessible to seniors. We have to find ways to adapt that. I would encourage all of us, when we look to our minister and the work that our parliamentary assistant, Adam Vaughan, has done on this file, to ensure that we have a large component that is affordable and accessible. I know from talking to our parliamentary assistant that this is a priority to look at, to make sure that it is accessible and affordable.