I'm very glad to hear you say such nice things about cooperative housing, and of course I agree with you. I think it's worth noting that cooperative housing programs began in Canada in the early seventies as a solution to the construction of ghettos that you described. Public housing programs in Canada came relatively late compared with, say, the United States and the United Kingdom, but apparently they didn't learn any lessons, because they built 100% low-income housing, no streetscape, nothing, and of course you're seeing the results in your area of the country right now. You mentioned the Regent Park redevelopment.
Co-ops were a community alternative to that, with mixed income, a combination of low and moderate incomes, a real heterogeneous community. The problem is that we're not getting any more of that. You mentioned CMHC's role, but it has been pretty clear for some time now, despite what I've been saying about broad outcomes, that the federal government will not permit its crown corporation to deliver direct housing programs. And that's a great shame, because I think there's an enormous value both socially and economically in having those mixed-income communities.