Yes, thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for your attendance here today.
I'll take us back to the study, which is housing innovation and how the government can assist both public and private partners with incentivizing new supply and getting us the units that we need to get us out of this housing crisis.
Mr. Pascoe, I'll start with you.
I've always found, through my time representing my constituents at two levels of government, that when all three levels of government work together, we find a greater success in whatever problem we're trying to tackle. In this instance, it's housing. We could certainly sit around the table today and call out municipalities and mayors across the country who we feel maybe aren't doing their part. However, that doesn't get us any further along the way in terms of getting us new supply and driving innovation in the housing sector.
Our government's taken a bit of a different approach. We created the housing accelerator fund, which speaks to many of the issues that you raised in terms of the delays there can be in the municipal process. We don't control municipalities. They fall under the jurisdiction of the provincial and territorial governments. However, we do play a role in the housing sector.
The housing accelerator fund seeks to incentivize municipalities to change the way they do business in terms of possibly creating a red-carpet process to incentivize new supply.
I know that in your area of the country, the City of St. Catharines has created a grant process for accessory dwelling units. They're using federal resources to provide those grants to your customers.
How do programs like that, along with those grants and the incentives, assist in terms of driving customers through your facility or to your door, and also how do they help in terms of driving innovation in your plant and in the industry?