Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have some general comments about the department and I think I would like to start in the area of seniors' housing and echo the sentiments of my colleagues, who have said we are waiting yearly to see how the Seniors' Housing Strategy will play out.
I think living in one of the larger centers, we are going to see the effect that a lack of senior housing is going to have. As we all know, we are a magnet community. We are going to draw a lot of people to this and other larger communities. A lot of people who require services require housing and we have also heard from the president of the Housing Corporation that seniors core need is something like 32 percent. I think this is rather high, so we know we have got some seniors housing needs to address.
We will be waiting to see how the housing strategy proposes to do this. I think the problem is going to be accelerated, given the changing demographics and the trends toward an aging population. I am interested in hearing how the Minister proposes to deal first with this concern that we have, especially in magnet communities that we will not have the housing and the services to keep up and how his strategy will address this. Thank you.