My colleague from British Columbia identified it. It's hard to build housing quickly, and it's hard, once you've built it, to make sure it's always in the place where you will necessarily need it. Housing systems have to be sustained. They can't simply be sparked quickly. That's why the investments we made before introducing the national housing strategy started as soon as we took office. It was to get the housing sector building again.
We've had great success in some communities. We're struggling in others, Toronto being one of them. Victoria, with a $90-million investment, with the municipality, the province, and the federal government at the table, will effectively have reduced homelessness to functionally zero within two years. When all three levels of government work together, with the federal dollars that are there, with the provincial commitment, which is strong right now in B.C., and with the municipalities leading and fine-tuning the process, we are starting to see great results in Calgary, in London, and in Hamilton. However, there are certain jurisdictions that are magnets for a whole series of housing pressures and that have housing markets that are very hot. In those areas, there is a stubbornness to the housing crisis.
I can assure you that if we could get the numbers down to those we've seen with the shelter populations in Quebec, where you have 75% capacity, the pressure would come off the housing system in Toronto. We would resettle in an orderly way, particularly with children, and we would all be talking about a much different thing today.