Mr. Speaker, the member says that he could be wrong, and indeed he is. Clearly, the record shows that the reason we have a retreat from the provinces in the provision of social housing, for example in Ontario which has a terrible record on housing, is because the federal government started the whole retreat back in 1993.
In fact, the finance minister, who was previously the chair of the Liberal task force on housing, issued a report to the Conservative government of the day pointing out that it was reprehensible in a society as wealthy as Canada that we did not have an adequate national housing program. So what did he do when he became the finance minister? He axed the whole program. That was his solution.
Let us get the facts correct and realize that the reason that we have homelessness today is not because of some individual failing among Canadians. It is a failure of public policies that began in this place with a Liberal government.