Mr. Speaker, here is a point of clarification. Housing starts this year are actually up year over year, but up tens of thousands over the last time the Conservatives were in office when their current leader had responsibility for the agency that manages housing in this country.
However, to drive home the point that is most essential here, when the Conservatives came up with a new idea on housing, they said they were going to pay for it by cutting programs that build middle-class and low-income housing for families right across this country. They want to cut housing; they want to cut health care; and they want to cut supports to families. That is completely unacceptable.