No, that strategy is not meeting the needs of our communities. As I mentioned earlier, the previous housing minister's national housing council identified a $63-billion need, and $300 million of that has been committed—actually $285.1 million, because CMHC took $18.5 million off the top of that and we're not sure for what—so it's less than 0.5% of the identified need.
I'll speak to numbers in Ontario. Fewer than 3% of the population are indigenous people, yet in southern Ontario 20% to 30% of those experiencing homelessness are indigenous. In northern Ontario, that climbs to 90% to plus 99% of people experiencing homelessness, yet the pro rata share of existing federal housing investments is almost negligible compared to that total investment.
It behooves me to ask why. In the very first part of that national housing strategy, Prime Minister Trudeau said that there is no relationship more important than our relationship with indigenous people, yet it took seven years after the beginning of that strategy to even acknowledge one of the highest-need demographics out there, that being the 86% of indigenous people who live off reserve. That direction has been extremely slow and extremely painful, while we continue to see people on the street—and overwhelmingly those people are indigenous.