Mr. Speaker, I can tell the hon. member that the government clearly recognizes the demands of investment in the aboriginal community. I know there are many aboriginal communities across Canada, principally in the northern areas, where there is substandard housing.
Last night I caught a short film on television about the Davis Inlet community as it was. That community does not exist anymore. It has been moved. The investments have been made. Perhaps that is a successful conclusion for Davis Inlet, but there are dozens of communities across the north with aboriginals living in substandard housing.
While there is a lot of federal money being spent in the envelope, sometimes the aboriginal communities just do not have the infrastructure available to take the money and fix the problem. We all have to take responsibility for this. I am pleased to see progress, but just because we have progress does not mean we have accomplished all of those goals.
Yes, there are aboriginals living in very substandard and unhealthy housing. Somewhere between what they do and what we do in government to make resources available, we have to solve that. We rely on people and systems to do that and I accept the member's representation that we have a lot of work to do in that envelope.