Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I never lose hope. I know that for sure. The status of the negotiations, if you could call it that with the federal government when we look at the actual need of social housing throughout Canada. Right now, everything is based on numbers, the allocation of the national pie. We enjoyed 6.44 per cent of that funding, when it was in place.
What we want to look at and what we've convinced the other Ministers to look at is because somebody is in need in Toronto, for example, of social housing because of an affordability problem, he is not in the same need as somebody in Whale Cove, for example, because they are overcrowded and there is just no house available. We want to figure out a way in which we could address the uniqueness of the northern jurisdictions ourselves, as well as the northern end of the provinces and Newfoundland so that it could give the Minister of Housing more ammunition to take back to his colleagues.
Also, what has been made very clear to us is that there would be no new funding for social housing. When the federal government Minister says we're back in the business, I don't know what business he's back into, but it isn't social housing, I know that. Coming up with $100 million over two years, I believe they came up with in their last budget, is not going to come near to solving our problems. All we can do is continue to put the pressure on, give them the information, the ammunition to present our case to his colleagues, and have hope that they will see the light one of these days and they will understand that it's only going to get worse. Thank you.