I guess what I am trying to say, Mr. Chairman, is you have to got to wrap some emotion around the issue here. We have got to get some national attention to it. We need to get some people in the press talking it up on our behalf. This is not a bureaucratic exercise. We are talking about the guys from the bottom end of scale in the communities who require public housing.
What I am suggesting to you is let us get some emotion wrapped around this thing. Let us get some people that have some skill in getting us the kind of publicity that is necessary and let us go take them to task.
Negotiations are fine, I do not care if the Government Leader is negotiating with Brian Mulroney, that is fine, that is part of the strategy. We need to balance that out with some public argument rather than back room lobbying. We have gone that route, and it has got us nowhere. With all due respect, you have tried to negotiate, my understanding is, to reinstate the funding of the 1991 levels. You have been told by the Minister, the federal Minister, that they are not prepared to do that.
They impact of it is, and I am just repeating it, that we build 153 units versus 372. We are sitting here in September, there is a possibility of a national election coming in the new year, in the spring. Now is the time to hit these guys, be very aggressive and be very public, in my best opinion, to see if we can make some impact on them.
That is all I am suggesting. At the same time, I would recognize that there is a requirement for subtlety, something that I am not known for, subtle negotiations at the Cabinet level.
Let us get some profile to this issue so that people recognize that it is an important one in the territories. The impact that it is going to have on us, the people who are on the bottom end of the scale, and lets us see if we can influence them. So far, with all due respect, we have not been too successful, by the polite, civil, bureaucrat agenda. Let us get into a real hard nosed political one.