Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all the witnesses for being here.
I actually get very excited when I hear from inventors and innovators like you gentlemen in the room here. There's no question in my mind that the solution to this housing crisis must include innovations like you are both involved in. Thank you for your commitment to that.
I'd like to talk a little bit about some of the challenges faced. The concept of manufacturing homes and manufacturing panels in a factory and putting them on site is itself not new, but some of the techniques that are being used are new and innovative, and that's amazing.
We've also learned that one of the biggest challenges facing any homebuilding in this country right now is in fact the approvals process to get a place to put the home, as well as the cost related to that and all that kind of stuff.
I'd like to focus today, though, on the regulatory system. We have a national building code. Provinces have their own building codes, and then sometimes municipalities have different rules on top of those rules.
I'll start with Mr. Searles and Mr. Royer. Could you speak briefly to the challenges that you have with the regulatory system?
You build something in a factory. You go put it on site, and sometimes there's some confusion about who's responsible for what's correct or not.
I'll start with you, Mr. Searles.