I would like to thank everyone who came here from Feed Ontario for your powerful and important message that you gave to us this morning. In particular, I would like to welcome Volker Kromm and Erin Waddington, who have come here from Thunder Bay. Thank you for all you do.

In many communities in Thunder Bay–Superior North, it is impossible to recruit educators and health care workers because there is nowhere to house them. We can even offer to pay them $150,000 but they still might not be able to find a place to live. With new mines coming, if there is no new housing built within existing communities, workers will be stuck living in camps, leading to increased isolation, high rates of addiction and risks to neighbouring communities.

Will the government provide direct funding to support the building of housing in northwestern Ontario that also takes into account the higher costs of building in smaller, northern communities?