I'm just trying to clarify how that goes.
He's a big boy, so he can fend for himself, but I just want to say there's no way that my colleague Mr. Hiebert was insulting any aspect of housing. He has been around here a long time. He's just filling in. Perhaps it was something in the translation, that Mr. Lessard was not....
I just want to clarify that he is filling in. He's substituting. Yes, he's visiting the committee, filling in for my colleague who's away today, but he wasn't insulting any aspect of housing. We're both from British Columbia. We have a 30-year Canada-B.C. social housing agreement, which was signed in 2006, and I think that social housing, affordable housing, accessible housing, housing of all forms is very important in British Columbia, as it is in all provinces and territories in the country.
I just wonder if maybe Mr. Lessard would be willing--he talked about how the Government of Quebec may choose to be exempt--maybe just after the word “Quebec” to add, as a friendly amendment, “and the Government of British Columbia to be exempted from the application of the act”. That way we'd also have the ability to choose if we want to. It's in the spirit of friendship and cooperation. I think it would make sense for all of us, all Canadians, to be treated equally. It's our national policy.