Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to go to Mr. Berube first.
I think about the fact that we're not operational. We're legislators, and what can we really do? My focus is always life and safety in relation to this one.
I'm thinking about how we need to modernize the federal code, and you mentioned the standardization and also talked about how complex that is. I think about Vancouver where, in the eighties or actually the early nineties, they did the California building code on a number of multi-family buildings. They didn't have rain screens, and their egresses are totally flooded all the time.
I just want to think about life and safety on a federal level. What is the federal space with regard to life and safety when you talk about sustainability? I think about climate change in my community. My community was the one where two people died with the atmospheric river recently. One house was washed away.
Where does sustainability play role in the federal code? I'll add on top of that rural and remote communities and indigenous communities, where we know that housing is desperately needed. How do we also roll in accessibility for persons with disabilities and for the aging population? How could the federal government have a role in that life and safety focus?