Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I have the honour to present a petition initiated by several Quebec organizations and signed by 628 people in the riding of Trois-Rivières.
These petitioners ask the Parliament of Canada to refrain from any rent increases for low-cost housing, housing co-operatives and non-profit housing and that it reverse the freeze on the budget of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, to provide for the construction of new social and co-operative housing.
The situation is becoming increasingly difficult for tenants in social housing, and the answer to our problem is not to attack them but to review tax shelters that allow Canadians who are better off to get rich at the expense of people on low incomes.