Madam Speaker, the hon. member for Thornhill spoke about encampments. There are encampments right in downtown Kitchener. The number of folks living unsheltered has tripled in recent years and so I share with her that concern, but let us not pretend that this only started in the last nine years. It has been three decades of Liberal and Conservative governments that have taken turns underinvesting in affordable housing and all, of a sudden, a crisis emerges as a result.
Provincial and federal governments have put more and more incentives in place for large corporate investors like real estate investment trusts to buy up housing in my community, raise the rents and renovict folks.
If the member for Thornhill is looking for support to not have confidence in the government, what can she share about truly addressing the affordability crisis when it comes to housing, which involves investing in housing the way we used to decades ago and addressing the financialization of housing in this country?