When NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson rises in the House of Commons on Tuesday to demand the Liberals declare a national housing emergency, she will undoubtedly highlight horror stories that surfaced during a housing roundtable in Sudbury on Monday.

McPherson, the MP for Edmonton Strathcona, heard from those assisting the city’s homeless that “people are dying faster than we are housing them,” that the national housing crisis should be treated like an out-of-control forest fire threatening a major community and that the mobilized resources put into housing should be similar to the level of Second World War effort made by Canada.

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She also heard that the homeless cannot afford housing when they are limited financially, either from being working poor, being o

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