Finance committee  Thanks for that interesting comment and question. Absolutely, I've been working quite extensively at the municipal level in the last couple of years. Interestingly, my conversations with municipal governments are the same as my conversations with national or federal governments, which are that cities have to adopt housing strategies based in human rights to address the various things going on in cities that are creating the unaffordability of housing.

Finance committee  I'm not sure of the relevance of this to the legislation that we're talking about today, but seeing as you're interested, in Dublin, for example, there's a real issue of developers sitting on land and waiting for that land to have increased value before they do anything with it.

Finance committee  Perhaps you misunderstand my job, Mr. Poilievre. I am the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing. I generally interact with national-level governments.

Finance committee  When I interact with city-level governments, the discussion is about human rights and housing. Those discussions tend toward discussions around what would the right to adequate housing look like if it were implemented in a city. In that case, I don't meddle in the details of a city's decision around this bylaw and that bylaw, etc.

Finance committee  Sorry—

Finance committee  Examples of what?

Finance committee  Thanks for your comments and your question. I'm deeply concerned about the state of housing and homelessness for indigenous peoples in this country. It's completely unacceptable, so yes, of course, there should be both: a separate strategy for indigenous peoples and housing, both urban and non-urban, but also an integrated strategy.

Finance committee  Good afternoon and thank you. I am Leilani Farha, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing. I was appointed to this position by the UN Human Rights Council in 2014. In this capacity, my role is to monitor and assess the enjoyment and implementation of the right to housing in countries around the world.