Along the same lines, Mr. Blaikie, a lot can be done from the procurement side.
We should be talking about always conducting a life-cycle assessment, using the building materials that give you the longest life cycle. Secondly, choose building materials that give you the lowest carbon footprint, and finally, use the best available technologies. We have a raft of those in Canada, from Svante to CarbonCure, to Solidia.
In our industry specifically, we have a new cement. It's called Portland limestone cement. It costs the same as regular cement. When you use this cement, it reduces greenhouse gases by 10%, at no cost to the customer. We've been trying for five years now to get this new cement mandated by the federal government, and by provincial governments and municipal governments. Imagine this: I don't say, “build with concrete”. I'd like you to build with concrete, but I don't say “build with concrete”. I say that if you build with concrete, use the cement that's going to give you the lowest carbon footprint at no cost to the taxpayer.