Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend's concern about the homeless. I know he is a pretty compassionate person and that he has thought of this idea which is wonderful. However what that would do is let the government off the hook on this issue.
I would love to have a debate sometime about how we deal with homelessness in Canada. It is a serious issue. What I am concerned about is that if we start to offer those types of solutions, we will never resolve this over the long run. We ultimately need to have a WTO ruling that would lend credence to what we already know is true: that Canada is correct on this issue.
Unfortunately, the government did not do a good job of preparing us for what would happen after the previous softwood lumber agreement came to an end. We are in the unfortunate position now where we are starting to think about those kinds of things. If we had started to deal with this a number of years ago, we would not be having a discussion today about the sorts of issues that my friend has raised. I think that is--