Thank you, Chair.
We have huge opportunities right now in northern Ontario. The mines are booming, and we have a lot of interest in immigration, but what's stopping us is housing.
We need fourplexes, co-op housing, seniors' residences and enormous amounts of urban first nations housing. Yet, for example, in Timmins, Mario Cortellucci and the Montemarano group just don't seem to want to come north because they can get everything they want from Doug the grifter in the Greenbelt.
How do communities like Timmins partner with the federal government to get these housing projects off the ground? They're ready to go, and this is holding our economy back.