Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Again, Conservatives like to generate a lot of heat and very little light.
I want to focus on an issue that is of great importance to Canadians and is of great importance to my community: the building of affordable housing.
I was delighted, Minister, to hear that six additional properties were unlocked—federal surplus lands—to create 2,800 new units in Calgary, Ottawa and St. John's. This will bring up the total number of units that will be built in the next number of years on federal lands to about 29,000 units, and I'm really excited about that.
We have a property in Windsor on the main road downtown, Oullette Avenue. It's 960 Oullette Avenue, the former HMCS Hunter Building. It is federally owned by the defence department right now, and it's been shuttered for a number of years. It's prime property to convert to affordable housing.
I just want to ask you if you could just highlight, once again, the work that's being done to accelerate the conversion of federally owned, surplus lands into affordable housing. How do we unlock it and get it in the hands of those folks who can convert it to affordable housing in communities like mine that desperately need it?