Thank you. I will be quick.
We hear stories all the time of people struggling to pay for homes, especially in Esquimalt, Cold Lake, and, as we're also hearing, in Halifax.
I just had a couple who transferred from Shilo to Halifax with the Canadian Forces. They are living out of a camper because they can't find a home. I know a young guy from my hometown who has been serving in Esquimalt for 10 years. He and his wife live in a one-bedroom apartment with a young family. To afford that one-bedroom apartment, on top of being a 10-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy, he has to work a second job to make ends meet. We need more homes. We can be either part of the problem or part of the solution.
When you talk about the Canada Lands Company and about federal assets that we can build more homes on, have you looked at everything from private-public partnerships to getting more expenditures from the government? You talk about $40 million for capitalization. Has that $40 million changed in the last number of years? Has there been a flat set rate?
Has the ask gone in that we have to build 7,000 more homes, we want to do that over the next X number of years, so we need this much more in expenditures to get those homes built? If we can't get it from the government coffers, can we do it through private-public partnerships?