Madam Speaker, I would like to make a comment and ask a question as a result of the comment.
After listening to the hon. member's speech, it would seem to me that the hon. member mixes up two very important terms: the issues of homelessness and housing. They are not synonymous. The issue of homelessness is a broader issue. If the hon. member has read the Golden report, which I hope she has and recognizes that it was sponsored in part by the federal government, the report shows that the issue of homelessness is a multifaceted issue.
In the city of Vancouver, where there is a great deal of homelessness and the issues of prostitution, urban natives and drug addiction, the government has recently put in $5 million to coordinate a strategy between three levels of government: between the people who live in the area and between the non-governmental organizations in the region to be able to work horizontally within and between governments and communities to come up with a coordinated, comprehensive, holistic response to these issues.
Not only was money put in to do this issue, but recently money was put in to the urban aboriginal strategy to help aboriginal people in cities to work toward a plan of action they can administer to find solutions to some of these issues. It needs to be co-ordinated.
Does the hon. member understand the difference between homelessness and lack of housing?