HANSARD: Privilege Issue with Conservatives intimidations
Mr. Speaker, after three decades of Conservative and Liberal government failures, Canada's community housing stock is the lowest among the G7 countries. There are about 5,000 people in the Lower Mainland who do not have a place to call home. They have little choice but to try to survive on the street or in encampments. However, what is abundantly clear is that forced evictions do not fix anything; they just make the unhoused more homeless. People need dignity, not decampment.
CRAB Park's tent city residents have travelled from Vancouver East to Ottawa this week for the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness conference. They want to see a tiny home village develop on the vacant port of Vancouver parking lot. The federal government can take immediate action and invest in this solution to help end homelessness. Moreover, this can be replicated from coast to coast to coast, in communities large and small.
Talk is cheap. It is time to realize housing as a basic human right.
