Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I totally support this motion. I just want to make a couple of quick comments. First of all, I find it really heartening that we have a clause in there that points out about disabilities and independent living. Mr. Speaker, I would like to see that this government takes a strong, firm grip on the type of policy that helps enable our people in healthy living conditions.

Mr. Speaker, I truly believe housing is a critical issue out there. It's a basic need. Tom Jackson, the famous singer, once said, you know, if there's no house, life doesn't really matter. He coined it in such a silly way, but it was simple. A house is the basic need of healthy communities. Health is a basic need to have healthy families. I think he was absolutely right. I don't think he was speaking from a scientific report or anything, but I think from his heart he was totally and absolutely right.

I think it's time that our housing department creates policies. If we have agencies out there in the private industry that come forward and ask for money and want our housing department to participate in private programs and whatnot, we should be able to enforce those relationships with following our types of policies that we put forward.

Mr. Speaker, I'm in support of this. Like I said, I wouldn't be long and I'll leave it at that for now. I think it's a great motion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.