Madam Speaker, I want to compliment the member for Edmonton Griesbach. He has been an extraordinarily effective spokesperson for housing in Edmonton and right across this country. He is very articulate when speaking to the needs that Canadians have for affordable housing in the midst of the affordable housing crisis.
I want to ask him two questions. First, we know that the Liberals gutted the national housing program 40 years back. The reality is that to get to the crisis we have today, successive Conservative and Liberal governments simply ignored the issue of affordable housing and ignored putting in place all of the investments that are critical to maintaining a housing stock. What would the impact have been if the Liberals and the Conservatives had not gutted affordable housing funding decades ago?
My second question is looking toward the future. If an NDP government is elected in the next election, what would that mean for building affordable housing? How quickly would we be able to build the housing stock that would make a difference and ultimately result in every Canadian having a roof over their head at night?