Mr. Speaker, what I want to provide for my constituents is something that both Conservative and Liberal governments have failed to do since the affordable housing strategy was cut by a former Liberal government over 30 years ago. It has certainly not been brought forward by the Conservatives since then.
We are missing 30 years of a federal government building affordable housing. The Ontario government has not done it either. We need to focus on building more co-operatives and building more affordable housing at all stages, whether it is rent geared to income, social housing or whatever. We also need to eliminate the REITs. We need to ensure that the greedy corporations that are buying up all of those affordable housing units cannot do it anymore.
In London, we are making some strides on that, a bit, at the municipal level, but neither the federal government nor the provincial government has taken any sort of leadership in that regard. I have stood many times, desperate to put forward real solutions for funds that could be created to give to not-for-profit organizations to buy up those affordable units to keep them affordable. The government has not done that, and my constituents are the ones that suffer for it.
There are so many incredible ideas that exist out there that we are not hearing because we are talking about how these two parties are mired in scandal.