Mr. Speaker, I have a very quick question for my hon. colleague from Ottawa.
Would she not say that one of those reinvestment programs that she is suggesting for the future should have been and always should have been a national housing program from coast to coast to coast and not leave it to the provinces to look after, as one of her previous members has stated?
The abandonment of a national housing policy by the federal government is one of the major causes as to why we have such homelessness in this country. The government says it was for fiscal restraint. However, in my province of Nova Scotia that has caused tremendous hardship for an awful lot of people.
Would the member not agree that would be a great reinvestment to start on Tuesday with the budget?