Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Now I would like to make a distinction between social housing and affordable housing.
Earlier, I heard someone say that 50% of the population of the city of Saint John rents housing. So the rental market in your city is a major one.
There are things that the federal government could do to encourage the construction of affordable housing, for example, cutting the GST on the construction of housing of that kind. Do you have any other ideas on the matter?
Second, what could we do to keep those housing units affordable? Nothing stops a landlord from increasing the rent after five or 10 years. What ideas do you have about it?