Thank you.
Because I don't have much time, I want to move quickly to the conversation that was had with my colleague Mr. McColeman in terms of land availability supply.
Being from the GTA, I understand your point, Mr. Finnigan. I'm going to make a quick statement and then get to my question. In terms of development charges being high in these areas, I guess my rhetorical question—and perhaps Mr. McColeman can think about this—is that, and I'm just curious because development charges go to the municipalities that support new homes, what should municipalities no longer supply to bring that cost down? Should we no longer build fire stations? Should we no longer build police stations? Should we no longer plow snow? Should we no longer collect garbage? Those are exactly the things we use that are supported by those development charges.
To get to my question to you, Mr. Finnigan, I'm just curious. You talked about land supply. I know the GTA well, so I want to ask this question. Without those government regulations and the control...because it's not saying that you can't build anymore. It's saying that you need to build higher density and you need to have better land use planning. What happens when the day comes that you've paved over every piece of farmland, every valley, creek, and stream, and eventually the land runs out? I'll tell you: the land runs out and then you get into water.
If you're going to build communities on water, Mr. McColeman, that's a different conversation.
Is the suggestion just to forget that regulation so that future generations are built out and there really is no more housing for anybody? Or is the government regulation really to have better land use and better building and design to also bring in a better efficiency of services?