Mr. Speaker, Canadians are living through a housing crisis. Families are being priced out of their neighbourhoods. Young people cannot imagine owning a home. Seniors are being pushed into impossible situations. This crisis is not abstract; it is urgent, it is national, and it is getting worse every single day.
When I was in Sudbury this week, I heard directly from local housing experts, who told me there are no shelter spaces, there is no affordable housing, children and the elderly are increasingly among those living on the streets, and the number of unhoused has skyrocketed in the last two years, with “people...dying faster than we are housing them”.
This is why I am calling on the Government of Canada to finally declare a national housing emergency and to act on it. That would actually unlock real tools, real coordination and real funding to deal with the challenge happening in our communities. The future of our communities and our country depend on it.