I think that it's a difficult thing for the federal government to do. This is clearly an area of provincial jurisdiction, but I think Tim Richter made the point that we need a much more co-operative federalism, with the federal government working with its provincial partners and saying, “Look, this is your jurisdiction. You are all saying that we have an affordability crisis, so let's work together on this”.
There certainly was a precedent in 1975, as I mentioned in a previous committee appearance, in the anti-inflationary mechanisms. The federal government asked the provinces to bring in rent controls, and they all did. I think if we now have a crisis, there's nothing stopping the federal government from using its moral suasion and working in collaboration with the provinces to change the regulations and remove or soften the vacancy decontrol mechanism, which is what's causing these massive increases in rents.