Madam Speaker, I would like to suggest to the member that it is incorrect to think of this as a new problem. One of the first meetings I took as a new MP back in 2016 was from people who said they could not afford to buy a house. That is one of the reasons we, as a government, put together all the means, the studies and the money to undertake the national housing program.
It is also true that the housing costs increased during the previous administration, not only the Harper years but certainly the Martin-Chrétien years, as well as in the previous administration, or the Mulroney years. In the Mulroney years, housing prices went up dramatically.
This is not a problem of government, it is a problem much more systemic than that. It is much more broad than that. It is unrealistic to expect that sweeping in with a new government and great new ideas is going to fix these underlying systemic problems.