Mr. Speaker, Toronto Centre—Rosedale is home to many diverse co-operative housing units. In bringing together people from different backgrounds in a secure housing environment, co-ops play an important role in providing stable communities in our fragile inner cities. The people who live there genuinely seek to improve their communities.
As we await the report of the Advisory Council on Social Housing Reform and the Ontario government's response to it, we find that the Ontario government, by downloading the responsibility for social housing to the municipalities, has created serious difficulties in how to deal with both social housing generally and co-ops in a way that ensures the viability of this important Canadian resource.
Co-operative housing is a unique form of housing. It is an important component in any comprehensive social housing policy. All levels of government together with the co-operative housing movement must work together to craft a viable and thoughtful solution to this issue, one that will preserve this important and unique form of housing.