Mr. Speaker, organizations have come to shout about it on the Hill. People in the streets are suffering from it. Homelessness is a problem. Why not renew the SCPI? What do people have to do to be heard?
We, the elected members of this House, speak for the voiceless, who will suffer from your uncomprehending refusal to renew the SCPI.
The groups that help these people have come to talk with us and share their concerns, yet this government has turned a deaf ear to them.
No one is immune to mental illness, no one can swear that they will not sink into alcoholism, no one can promise that they will never suffer from depression. No one wants to wind up on the street, yet this government is refusing to tell the homeless whether it will provide the necessary funding for the organizations that help them and that are often their only hope.
The Bloc Québécois is calling on the government to enhance the SCPI, make it permanent and transfer it to Quebec.