I want to go back to the distinctions-based indigenous housing strategy and the numbers. This is really inadequate funding. It sounds like big numbers, but it's grossly inadequate. There are 634 reserves, so $600 million over three years is a little over $300,000 per community, not even the cost of a house in some communities.
The funding that's targeted for the Inuit communities is $400 million. With 53 communities, that's $500,000 per community over a period of 10 years. Again, we know there are 15 people living in a house. Lives are on the line. Going back to the Métis, over 10 years, it amounts to approximately $100 per registered Métis person.
Why are decisions being made that knowingly underfund housing, when we know the situation is dire now, certainly with COVID, and that it's going to cost lives, particularly in remote and rural communities?