Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to shift gears a little bit and ask a question to the Minister regarding an initiative that he is working on along with another department, and that is the Harmonization Strategy that has yet to be tabled in this House. I want to point out to the Minister and ask him to respond on a couple of questions. I am running out of time so I will ask both of them at this point.
I want to know why there is no consultation process for this strategy. The communities are not even privy to what is in the document. They have not been given formal notice whether their rents are going to go up, whether they are going to go down. Why does this Minister not, along with the Minister of Housing, allow this document to come to the floor of this House for a debate?
This initiative was introduced by the 13th Assembly. It is not an issue that has been rubberstamped, I believe, by the Social Programs Committee. I do not see any opportunity for us to discuss this issue in the public because it has not been formally presented to the House. It has not been tabled in this House. There is no consultation in the communities. It is kind of like "We are going to push it through whether you like it or not, sink or swim."
I would like to ask the Minister to respond on the issue of consultation and also the comment about the debate.