Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the member's comments. I can assure the member that this government is indeed very compassionate. He needs only to look at our actions.
We signed the residential schools settlement for $1 billion. We compensated the forgotten victims of hepatitis C to the tune of $1 billion. The previous Liberal government had refused to make any kind of compensation for those forgotten victims. The NDP members did support us on that and I thank them for that.
I also would like to bring to the member's attention the $270 million in our new homelessness partnership strategy to prevent and reduce homelessness. There is $300 million dedicated to the development of a first nation market housing fund to support market housing approaches for first nation communities.
I hope the member now is satisfied that the track record of the government shows compassion and demonstrates understanding. We are doing a lot to try to mitigate what is a very serious problem in Vancouver and throughout the country.