Madam Speaker, I am fully aware of the concurrence motion that we are debating today. I just wanted to set some of the context in which I find it troubling that we are having to debate these issues through concurrence motions. We should be debating housing through government legislation, which the NDP was able to successfully contribute to not that long ago.
That is what we should be debating. We should not be debating concurrence motions, moving things around, and how we take a committee report and send it back to committee as proposed in the amendment. We should be working on actual government legislation that would have a meaningful, tangible impact on Canadians' lives. A concurrence report coming from committee, although very important in terms of the work that we do here, does not have the ability to direct any kind of legislation other than in terms of asking the government to bring in a new piece of legislation with respect to the issue.
Let us talk about this concurrence motion and about housing more specifically. When it comes to housing, the reality is that we find ourselves in a unique position once again. We have introduced a program, the housing accelerator fund, which is very effective. Kingston received almost $30 million. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition is great with his two-word slogans, and it was recently revealed in a story that—