"Everyone is welcome to the table: the private sector, the non-profit sector, the faith-based sector, First Nations, the federal government – everybody is in this."

  Speaking of "faith", as Bruce Springsteen sang, "Blind faith can get you killed."  Canadians have always taken affordable housing for granted. We always believed, at least through the early 80's, that housing is, like medicair for all, a sacred trust. Since the 80's or 90's or 00's we've had a very slow awakening to the loss of this sacred trust (and the loss of democracy and social harmony that goes with loss of a sacred trust).
   But Canadians are just the self-deluded patsies to see it happening for 30 years and accepting it without protest. We've been had. The real separatists in Canada are the wealthy who have separated their money from 90% of Canadians, separated us from the Canada we once trusted, separated the homeless from their homes, and , it seems, separated many from their moral courage.