Thank you.
Minister, thanks for joining us. Well done on your French. It's much better than mine.
I'm going to assume that you've read the Auditor General's report. I can't think of a better word than perhaps “damning”. I'm just wondering what immediate steps you're taking to address this. I'll go over some of the findings.
Infrastructure, ESDC and CMHC “did not know whether their efforts improved housing outcomes for people experiencing homelessness”. You've mentioned all this money spent, as you do in the House all the time, and the AG says the departments can't even say if you're helping anyone. The report also says, “As the lead for Reaching Home”, which you've talked a lot about here today, “the department did not know whether chronic homelessness and homelessness had increased or decreased since 2019”. It says the CMHC, “as the lead for the National Housing Strategy...did not know who was benefiting from its initiatives”.
Then we have CMHC pointing fingers, saying that it should be Infrastructure. Infrastructure is saying, well, we're not accountable; someone else is. This is an absolute mess. I appreciate the sentiment of what you're trying to say, but it doesn't match the reality. You've talked about how you've done this, this and this. We know that housing prices in Canada have doubled. Homelessness in Edmonton is through the roof, even though we have relatively stable housing prices. You've claimed that you're doing this, this and this, but the results are different. Again, the Auditor General says your departments don't know if you're actually helping anyone.
Why are we pushing out all this money and we don't even know if we're getting results? When we look at what's actually happening out in Canada, we see rising homelessness, unaffordable rent and unaffordable mortgages. I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt, but all it comes back to is failure. How are we going to fix this? What are we going to do to actually get results?