Human Resources committee  In terms of reducing their own contributions, yes, I quite agree. If the Government of Canada puts money on the table, it should come with conditions, as it has previously done in the past, after all. When I said that I did not want the federal government to create programs in pl

Human Resources committee  I am not sure I know what you mean by a stronger system. However, I do know that we have to consider housing allocation programs that the provinces already have and make sure that they are not withholding their cash. Quite the opposite, we need the amounts allocated to surpass th

Human Resources committee  No. In fact, those objectives should even be enhanced. As I understand it, in various areas, the federal government generally requires provinces and territories to fulfill certain conditions when they are allocated money, failing which, penalties can be imposed on other activiti

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  I agree with that, but—

Human Resources committee  That approach actually does not work. That's an example of a situation where Canada is too specific in its judgment. Personally, I would really like the government to determine that the money it is giving must be spent on households that have a core housing need or must increase

Human Resources committee  I agree in principle, but there is not enough money to meet all the needs. Do we agree on that? As I understand it, the federal housing allowance program is looking at 300,000 households. But right off the bat, we know that 1.7 million households have core housing needs. So we ar

Human Resources committee  Yes, I agree with you. Each time we have a census, we produce a report using the data that Statistics Canada sells us. However, for those with disabilities, we don't manage to get a clear picture, because the only data that we have available are not about households, but about in

Human Resources committee  I hesitate a little. I agree with you that we need more specific data. But I am more concerned about the homeless. I was talking about that earlier with another member of your committee. Currently, we have a problem: we are unable to accurately estimate the needs in terms of home

Human Resources committee  Let me quickly summarize what I have already told you. Of course, we need to make sure that the poor have the income they need for adequate housing, because that is one of the conditions for staying healthy. We have to start working right now on social housing, whether it alread

Human Resources committee  What more can I tell you? We still have no clear picture of the way in which each of the groups has experienced this pandemic, except what I was able to describe to you based on what has made the headlines or the number of calls that we have received in recent months. They were d

Human Resources committee  My hope is that the Government of Quebec would have been more generous in launching new programming for the development of social housing. It already had a first challenge to meet: it had decided to deliver some 15,000 social housing units that had already been in the program for

Human Resources committee  I agree with everything the previous speaker said. We obviously need data to be able to see as clearly as possible the challenges we are facing and to be able to find good solutions. But the fundamental problem with homelessness is the whole debate about what is and what is not

Human Resources committee  Excuse me, Mr. Chair.

Human Resources committee  I had sent my document in advance to make it easier for them.