Mr. Speaker, while the member advocates for policy, I am part of the government that has actually delivered it. We delivered the right to housing. We have delivered additional units and additional investments, and we continue to add more investments, more components and more chapters to the national housing strategy.
The member referenced the comments of Tim Richter, the head of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. Yes, this one single budget has not fundamentally ended homelessness overnight in Canada. That is a challenge that several budgets will be required to achieve. However, our budgets are lined up and are achieving those results.
The 5,000 units in the rapid housing initiative was not something the NDP asked for; it was something our government worked with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness on to deliver. It is something that our government worked with housing providers to deliver. Now that we have the first $1 billion out the door, $1.5 billion is now on the way, and those housing programs will house a further cohort of homeless Canadians.
We know that it is a large challenge. We know of the inactivity of the previous federal government. We inherited a government that was spending $250 million a year on housing. We have put $72 billion into the housing strategy; $26 billion has been spent so far. There are hundreds of thousands of units across the country, and $1.3 billion alone in the city of Toronto to repair public housing. However, when we talked about repairing public housing, the House leader for the NDP said that repairing housing should not be part of the national housing strategy.
I can assure the member opposite that if we do not repair housing, if we do not subsidize housing and if we do not build housing, we do not solve the chronic housing crisis in this country. If we do not do all of those things—