Thank you, Madam Chair, and thanks to the witnesses.
I'll go to Mr. Lee first.
Welcome. You're familiar from your appearances on TV. I think you were commenting quite often on my evening news programs.
We were talking about housing costs, and I don't deny what you're saying, which is that the cost of land in large municipalities—that's one of the factors—has driven up municipal costs again. However, I'm reaching out as a representative of Atlantic Canada. I come from the agricultural sector. For many years, agriculture has been building with prefab products, prefabs out of factories. Obviously we're doing that because it expedites the process of building and brings costs down, overall, for transportation and that type of thing. In Atlantic Canada, we have a limited labour market, and transportation costs are a lot more.
I want your thoughts on prefabricated manufacturing of housing components in Canada. Could that accelerate building the housing that we need to do?