Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to Mr. Blaikie, who sits very close to me in the House. I'm sure we're going to have many discussions on this in the near future.
Look, housing is a huge issue. I know that anything we could do to address this issue would be appreciated by the residents of my riding of Davenport as well as all Canadians.
The focus for me, Mr. Blaikie, is that this is largely on the financialization of the housing market, which is fine. We need to get to the bottom of what's happening here. What do we need to change? What do we encourage and what do we discourage? I wholeheartedly agree with the study. I don't have an issue.
We might want to leave it up to the clerk to determine the dates. I think October 2 is a statutory holiday because of truth and reconciliation. On October 30 we have the bank governor. I would love to see an even balance between our pre-budget consultations and this study. I don't have all the dates right now, but I wanted to point that out to you.
I would also say to you, and I would like this on the record, that I have met with a number of non-profits in my riding that have been trying to build deeply affordable housing, not only within my riding but also across Toronto, and every single one has literally come up with a list: Here's what's stopping us at the city level, here's what's stopping us at the provincial level and here's what's stopping us at the federal level. Literally, I'm starting to come with that list, so my only comment around it is this: If it's only limited to federal agencies, which I know we have the authority to be able to change, we might want to have some provincial or municipal representation whereby people can speak to that as well. We can incentivize as well what happens at the municipal and provincial levels as we are moving forward, whether it's on regulations or on law.
I just wanted to make sure we articulated that. That came across very clearly over the summer. It was very useful information for me.
Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.