I appreciate that. I agree with you that there must be some stipulations as to how money can be spent. I'll leave it to Mr. Lessard, who will probably follow me, as to some of the jurisdictional issues we have interprovincially.
I mentioned JoAnn Bidgood, and I met her when I was first elected in 2004. There is a former military base in my riding called Shannon Park. It has 100 acres of land on Halifax Harbour and has been decommissioned as a military base. For a short period of time it was going to be the site of the stadium in Nova Scotia's bid to host the Commonwealth Games.
I'm pleased to see Megan here from Halifax. She knows about this issue as well.
The issue is what do you do with this? It goes to Canada Lands. You all know the process, and we've talked about this. One of the worst things we've done in many communities is build what we call affordable housing or social housing. Then we kind of shut it off from everything. We've been surprised when people haven't really taken pride in that. We've been surprised that crime has been rampant.
We've been surprised that seven minutes goes by that quickly.
One of the things I like about co-op housing is the diversity of people. I've seen that in co-ops in my own area, for example. There are people from all levels, and arrangements are made for people who don't make quite as much money as others. People live together. It's not just a house; it's a community where people live.
I know I don't have time, and we have a very mean chair who won't allow me to continue.
Thank you very much for that, and thank you all for the presentations you made.