Mr. Speaker, I have here a petition signed by more than 80 of my constituents from Frontenac, Black Lake, Thedford and Saint-Ferdinand, who are opposed to social housing rent increases.
Whereas the federal government froze the CMHC's budget for the next five years, while asking it to save money, supposedly to provide assistance to young couples, and whereas, to do so, the federal government intends to raise low rents by 20 per cent, the undersigned ask Parliament:
-first, to forgo all social housing rent increases; and
-second, to lift the freeze on the Canadian Mortgage and Social and Co-op Housing Corporation.