Mr. Speaker, time does not permit me to list everything. The total allocation directed to urban aboriginal peoples is estimated to be over $500 million. It is delivered through a variety of federal departments.
The government has, for example, increased the funding for the urban aboriginal strategy to over $68 million over the next five years. We are also trying to include first nations people on reserves in the human rights legislation. I think many Canadians would be shocked to find out that first nations people on reserve are not included. It seems mind-boggling that anyone in Canada would not enjoy the same human rights that every parliamentarian does.
In budget 2007 we have made announcements dealing with low income families through the working income tax benefit for example. We have announced a new labour market approach that will focus on enhancing the participation of groups more vulnerable to low incomes, such as persons with disabilities, aboriginal Canadians and older workers.
We have a $500 million labour market program that will provide employment support for those not currently covered by EI. We have funding for the aboriginal skills and employment partnership, which will support aboriginal Canadians and that has been doubled.
We have the $270 million new homelessness partnership strategy to prevent and reduce homelessness and $300 million has been dedicated to the development of a first nations marketing housing fund to support a marketing and housing approach for first nations communities.
I will come back to what we have done tonight. All parties have raised an awareness of this issue. The NDP member for Vancouver East has certainly identified a problem that exists in Vancouver and highlighted it. The government is certainly aware of it, but it never hurts to discuss possible solutions. I know the government will be looking at everything to ensure we do the best job for Canadians. After all, that is why we are here.