Mr. Speaker, I completely disagree with the parliamentary secretary's comments.
If tomorrow morning, all of the people who own houses damaged by pyrrhotite that are insured by CMHC—another obviously federal organization—turn over their keys, the government would be stuck with quite a bill. Instead, it is pocketing taxes from people who have to pay again for work they have already paid for.
What has happened since the current Minister of Industry told the House, in relation to a nearly identical problem with pyrite in Montreal, that public works had announced that the federal government was giving $3,500 in aid per homeowner to Montreal area homes damaged by pyrite?
The government is sending cheques to homeowners in Quebec but has not really done anything for condo owners in British Columbia whose condos are leaking—