Thank you, Mr. Chair.
For the information of the entire committee, it was always our intention to have a clause like this in the original bill. However, we received what we would say was bad or incorrect advice from the legislative counsel's office. We actually withdrew that specific provision on the advice that we didn't need it. Now we're confronted with the fact that we do need it. So that everybody is aware, it was always the intention to have this provision or a similar provision in the bill, just as Madame Folco raised with Bill C-303 for a national child care strategy.
Further, we do see this kind of asymmetrical or flexible federalism in other bills, in other pieces of law. In fact it's interesting to think of what Mr. Komarnicki proposes, that one province may not actually have to build a single house, when Quebec leads the way when it comes to affordable housing in this country. We should aspire to build as many homes and as much affordable housing and have a strategy in the way they have a strategy.
Thank you.