Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for Elgin—Middlesex—London for her passion for poverty reduction.
One of the things we see a lot from the government is announcements, but no delivery. In fact, someone made the comment the other day that the Liberals get an A for announcements but a D for delivery.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, which is headed by the former parliamentary budget officer, Kevin Page, put out a report on the national housing strategy in which he commented that he was not able to find the money. We heard the parliamentary secretary say that the government has spent $5 billion so far. In fact, Kevin Page's organization, in the five years going forward, can only find $1.5 billion that has actually been budgeted, much less spent.
He said that the national housing strategy is purely a glossy document with no delivery. I wonder if the member would agree with that.