As you properly characterized, MP Ashton, the housing crisis will not be resolved through any one particular budgetary cycle. It has to be addressed in a systemic fashion with sustained investments over the course of many budgets.
The amounts we put in budget 2022 are historic in nature in their sums. The challenge now is to get them out and to get the houses built. They will change lives. They will make a difference as well as the amounts we put in prior budgets for shelter specifically on the points that we are dealing with today. They will be game-changers in many ways, but are they enough? Absolutely not. I don't think anyone credible could stand up and say that. It will require sustained effort by every single government that purports to represent Canada for a number of years, well up to 2030, on closing the actual gap.
We have to continue measuring it as well, and that's a challenge that my colleague Minister Hajdu has the responsibility for and that we're working on to get a sense of where that infrastructure gap is and how much it is. We have, unfortunately, the bad habit of throwing numbers at each other of various levels of sophistication, and that doesn't help to do the financing profiling work that we need to do to make sure communities are properly served and are getting the housing and supports they are entitled to.