It's probably not my area of expertise, but I think the streamlining of codes can assist with affordability. There is a lot of work being done, and I commend the work to make some of the codes more uniform from federal to provincial to municipal jurisdictions. What we are seeing, though, is that, when code changes occur, the bodies at the municipalities—the inspectors or the approving bodies at the municipalities—don't know how to implement the code changes. The issue is that the changes to make the codes more uniform are slowing down the process, because then they're not being implemented quickly enough. I think that needs to be considered when we're looking at codes overall.
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