Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Long.
Mayor Taylor, as a mayor of a municipality, could you share with the committee some of the main challenges facing the municipalities that impact the processing of construction applications? We keep hearing that there's too long of a development cycle.
How can the federal government support municipalities to accelerate the housing construction process? Only as three examples, could there be things like changes to building codes which would require secondary dwelling units; should we fund additional staff for processing applications; or should we fund something along the lines of an end-to-end process review to streamline the development processes at the municipal level?