Before coming into this job, I was in the rail sector. The federal government does an absolutely excellent job of using their powers of convening to bring together supply chain participants to solve problems. When there are ships backed up at the port of Vancouver and we need to expand, it involves the highways, the railways, the city. They do a very good job of bringing all of the stakeholders together.
When I came into the housing sector, this was non-existent. It's still non-existent. There are too many one-off, round table-type meetings. We always appreciate being invited to them, but we need to bring the ministers together as a national summit. We need to have the stakeholders there who have all of the ideas. We don't need to invent any new ideas.
You can go back to the Ford government's housing task force. They have 55 recommendations. There are recommendations there that would probably apply across the country. We don't need more ideas; we need the collaboration and the structures to be able to decide which ones are a priority and to get moving on bringing those together.
That's why we keep saying we need a more permanent structure, a round table with some real energy and leadership from the federal government to get behind it so that we can move forward. When you listen to mayors like Mr. Guthrie, you realize that the willingness to collaborate is there. However, we need leadership for this.