Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, Ms. Bowers. Thank you for coming here today.
I have some questions that follow on from the line of questioning I had on Monday, when this we met on this for the first time. It's regarding studies that you've been doing through your idea labs in your organization.
I did a little homework on this. You have 47 solutions that are in process right now. You're spending $30 million on these idea lab solutions. One of the ideas that came forth was from a gentleman named Paul Kershaw, of Generation Squeeze out of Vancouver, recycling more or less his own thesis and putting it forward as a solution for the Government of Canada to increase housing supply. Even though the objective and the goal of these idea labs is to increase housing supply, Mr. Kershaw of Generation Squeeze had no solutions that were going to increase housing supply. They were going to increase taxation of housing in Canada.
Can you tell me how something that's just going to increase taxation was vetted through a program that was supposed to look at increasing supply, please?