Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to congratulate all the witnesses. I am very grateful to them for being here and for their presentations. There is a lot there we can use in the report we will be submitting to the minister.
My questions are for the Unifor representatives, but just before that, I would like to read the motion I sent you on Friday, which I said a few words about at our last meeting. I don't want to debate it; I just want to give the committee notice. It is as follows:
That the committee request that the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC): a. Provide answers to the questions asked during Meeting 102, on Thursday, September 28, 2023, regarding the update for the study on the policy decisions and market forces that have led to increases in the cost of buying or renting a home in Canada with new population growth scenarios, with the data broken down for Quebec, the provinces and the territories; and b. Table the information referred to in (a) with the committee within 10 working days after this motion is adopted; and That, if the documents are not tabled by the deadline, Coleen Volk, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bob Dugan, Chief Economist, Aled Ab Iorwerth, Deputy Chief Economist, and Chris Woodcock, Director, Client Development and Government Relations, be called to appear before the committee to explain why they have been unable to provide this information for more than a year.
Last night, Mr. Fragiskatos, who is the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, contacted me to let me know that CMHC still had not updated the data for this study, but it was actively working on it and we should have it when we come back from the break, or during the first week of November at the latest. So I will not be moving the motion. I just wanted to give notice of it. Mr. Fragiskatos promised me that we would have the data for this study, so I take him at his word. We are impatiently awaiting the updated data.
I will now come back to the Unifor people.
Thank you for being here, once again. I took great interest in your aerospace policy, which is very complete. It is over 40 pages long and presents a comprehensive vision.
Let's start by talking about the first two recommendations you referred to, Mr. Cloutier. In other words, tell us about the importance of creating a national industrial strategy for the aerospace industry and an aerospace development council.
I am listening.