Sure. I think there's generally been a downloading of land use regulations to local municipal governments, and for good reason. The constituents are local and the politicians are local. I think the issue is that transit funding and infrastructure funding often come from more senior levels of government. There's been a lack of connection with that investment in transit infrastructure in particular and housing outcomes. If we're going to be investing in transit infrastructure in urban centres and putting large transit stations in, that is absolutely, from a sustainability perspective, where housing should go.
To make it easier, I think we need to start using metrics to identify outcomes. The Province of British Columbia is actually going in the right direction there. They're forcing municipalities to create housing needs reports. They will then be following up with municipalities to identify outcomes. I think we absolutely have to be using metrics. We have not been doing that.
The other thing is the low-hanging fruit here for all governments. We are calling for a policy moratorium. Right now we're building a building under code A, we're designing a new building under code B and policy-makers are making up code C, all at the same time. We can't operate that way. We have to stop the policy. Just give us some breathing room. We need to figure out taxation. We need to figure out policy. We need a moratorium on both. That is how we're going to get housing built.
The private sector doesn't need to be subsidized, and it doesn't need to be incentivized. It needs to be enabled. We just need to build housing for Canadians.