Thank you.
I'll move to Mr. Mari. I feel that it's going to be very frustrating to listen to your answers, but thank you for being so blunt about the assessments of what you and other builders have to do in your municipality in particular.
I'm from a rural area. My community's only holdup is in whether or not we can get collaborative federal and provincial funding to expand sewers and water treatment plants.
We will build. We have no issues, because we have relatively small city councils and RMs, and we have reeves and a small number of employees there. We follow the building codes and we get things built because people want to build houses, so when I hear these stories of gatekeepers making up ridiculous reasons to delay projects for two years, it just makes my blood boil, even though I don't understand it. We're clearly in an affordability crunch and a housing shortage situation, and it's clear what the cause is.
You previously warned that adding one well-intentioned building requirement after another can drive up builders' housing costs. How should government decide when the next energy requirement costs a household more than it can reasonably recover through lower bills?