Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I actually have a question for the Rick Hansen Foundation. I'm very intrigued with your discussion about the accessibility of spaces. I come from a municipal background previously.
I just have a couple of questions. I really like this idea, so I have more technical questions to just wrap my own mind around it.
How much specifically would you require for the fund? The certification is what I'm interested in. Obviously it's just like the LEED program. From your description, that's what it sounds like. Then how would you work with provinces?
I'm from Ontario. The Planning Act is very specific, so how do you actually work with the provinces to ensure that these standards, or whatever the certification program is, are actually upheld? I've seen municipalities try to put in their own scoring, and at the end of the day, if someone building the project doesn't want to do it, there are no real teeth unless it's in the Planning Act. Are you relying on mainly public spaces through municipalities? If that's the case, at least in Ontario, there is already legislation for that. We're already required to do that, and it's the larger public-yet-private spaces that I found were always the ones with the biggest barriers: malls, doctors' offices, plazas, those types of things.
Could you just highlight a little bit of that program for me?