Madam Speaker, I would first like to make some observations and comments. We have had $753 million in homeless funding over the last three years. Where did it go? There are no homes. Today in Edmonton an LRT station for homeless people is being opened. The shelters across Canada are bulging. People are sleeping in the street. Three years of homeless funding of $753 million and it has been an abysmal failure. Now the government wants to throw another $400 million into a system that is already abysmal, without a plan and without a strategy.
I would like to ask the member opposite a question. He previously stood in the House to make the statement that the affordable housing funding to be approved would be for families, not for singles. The $753 million of homeless funding has gone for naught because the homeless are on the streets. It should be recognized that the people who are homeless and living in shelters are singles. There was $680 million for affordable housing which did not go into it.
Who exactly will be housing those single people who are in such dire need? Will any of this new funding be appropriated for single people or is it all for family housing? The singles on the streets in Edmonton and those sleeping in the LRT station will still be there next year. Will that be the case?