Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too will be supporting this motion. I heard a number of concerns. I have visually seen the state of our buildings in the communities. You go to small communities, you really see the demand, demand seen in a number of ways. There's a young constituent of mine that was couch surfing for seven years and her reward and determination was seen by having her own home, compliments to the community's application to the federal Rapid Housing Program. So those are proven results, and I think moving forward as we enter into a new fiscal year, I would encourage the department and in government to stand behind developing the updated needs assessment, the business case, and go to Ottawa and sell it.
The community and this government, I think we all realize that, and I was quite surprised on my last mining Roundup attendance in Vancouver at later part of last month, here we have a mining company recognizing the need for housing on the approach that strong families, healthy families living in their own home, makes for a strong workforce. So it's even recognized by industry. And I thought to myself that's very complementary to the statements made by this one company to recognize -- outside of their corporate objectives to mining to recognize how can we develop and make stronger communities. So they voluntarily helped to say we recognize. If there's anything else we can do to help, please let us know. So there's -- that's my recommendation. Put your words into action, develop the business case, and sell it. Mahsi.