Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also support the motion, as I have said the last few weeks and last year when it first came up in this House. There are too many unanswered questions. There are too many things that Ministers can't answer. I asked a question yesterday to the Minister. I asked what is going to happen when someone is going to receive a sum of money and the rent was increased and income support was denied? He didn't give me an answer. He didn't have the answer. Most of the time we ask questions, they have to refer to each other or just come up with long sentenced preambles. No answer. There are too many of those out there.
I am getting information from my communities where rents are going to be increased $200 for seniors and for income support. They are basing everything on the income, but also they've increased the rent in the communities, which was not part of the harmonization. Now they are saying the cost of the home is now going to be $200 more. The Minister from income support can't tell us exactly how he is going to deal with people's arrears that are going to accumulate from rent for an income support client who makes money. They don't even have the answer how they are going to deal with it. All they said is the Housing Minister is going to give it to my department.
Well, give us the details. They haven't given us the details how they are going to deal with the situation. They haven't given the details of how some of the other assessments are going to happen. They are coming to us in 2000 with numbers of 50 percent of clients who will be impacted will be on income support. Then you look at the numbers and you find out that only 38 percent will be impacted. Suddenly, you take out the seniors and the percentage gets lower. Harmonization is something where you put two and two together to make it click. It's not going to click if you don't even have the percentage you are going to work with and put them together. All we can do is fix the policies in housing so we have a fair rental scale, and fix income support so they deal with how they assess their income. Two different issues, they can still deal with it. You don't have to harmonize in your answers. How can you harmonize when you have to do the actual thing?
I am going to say I support this motion. There are too many question marks. You guys are going out there with a gas gauge that's going up and down. Your tail pipe is hanging low and you don't even know where you are going to end up on the map. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.