Mr. Speaker, Quebec accounts for 25 per cent of the total population of Canada and is home to 29 per cent of those living in inadequate housing in Canada. Yet, in the past five years, it has been allocated only 19 per cent of the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation's budget.
My question is for the minister of public works. How can the minister justify the fact that less money is available to the poor in Quebec than in the other provinces and what new way does he have to meet the glaring need for social housing in Quebec?