Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for the reports you've done.
I'm hoping to focus on the current and future use of office space. I'm trying to better understand how the affordable housing programs work, because when I talk to families in my constituency, I find that they don't really care about the big announcements in Ottawa; they care about whether they can actually pay the rent and get an affordable roof over their heads.
I noticed in the report that Ottawa uses the term “affordable housing” to mean 80% of today's sky-high market rent, and StatsCan says that it should be no more than 30% of a family's income. Those two radically different definitions seem to me to be a bit of a problem. Would you agree that this difference in definitions is a big part of the problem and exactly why the lowest-income families, the ones we need to help the most, are still being left out in the cold?