Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, we were discussing the Canada community-building fund at the end of our exchange earlier. We criticized your government for wanting to add more fund eligibility conditions and to interfere in a jurisdiction that is not its own. You told us that your priority was to promote housing construction. I'm glad to hear that because I'd like to discuss a very specific housing project with you.
The riding that I represent includes the municipality of Contrecœur. That municipality had a problem with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the CMHC, because CMHC had classified it as a rural municipality, whereas its population has grown to more than 10,000 inhabitants. The problem is that, since CMHC still classifies Contrecœur as a rural municipality, it has become extremely difficult to implement all the funding programs for social and affordable housing creation in that municipality. The funding level is way too low. Furthermore, since the municipality is also located in the metropolitan Montreal area, housing prices are extremely high, which puts considerable pressure on the local market.
We sent you a letter last week asking if we could count on your support in our efforts to have Contrecœur reclassified. That would help make social and affordable housing development projects viable in the coming years. Without that support, the municipality will be stuck in this situation for the next four, five or six years. I have a copy of that letter.
I'd like to discuss this situation with you. How does one go about getting a municipality reclassified when this kind of administrative error occurs or when demographic change makes reclassification necessary?