Mr. Speaker, I have a second petition this afternoon from Canadian citizens residing in Burnaby, New Westminster, Surrey and Vancouver, British Columbia. These petitioners note that on base housing serves a valuable purpose by allowing Canadian Forces families to live in a unique military community, that the housing accommodation provided by the Canadian Forces Housing Agency is in many instances substandard to acceptable living conditions and, further, that CFHA continues to dramatically increase rent for such housing.
Therefore they call upon Parliament to immediately suspend any future rent increases for accommodation provided by the Canadian Forces Housing Agency until such time as the Government of Canada makes substantive improvements to the living conditions in housing provided for our military families.