Mr. Speaker, I would like my colleague to tell me in what way this is not going to be a new entity that centralizes power and overrides Quebec's jurisdictions. It is always the same old story. Whenever a federal entity is involved, the government always tries to impose its requirements, which only draws out the process. Instead of speeding up housing construction, the government announces it.
We saw this before with the Canada housing infrastructure fund. An agreement was reached last January, after a two-year delay. Even the Fédération québécoise des municipalités called out the federal government for its determination to interfere and impose its will.
Quebec and the municipalities are the levels of government that know the population's real needs. The government had a different vision. Quebec is much more inclined toward the collective. There is nothing in this bill about social housing or co-operatives. At the very least, I think that warrants a “Quebec clause” so that Quebec—