That's a great question. I agree there is always a blame game.
The Alberta provincial government has been very focused on red tape reduction. In its attempt to reduce provincial red tape, a lot of it has been downloaded as red tape onto municipalities. We are constantly being asked to jump through hoops to achieve the province's goals. It's probably a question for the planning department at my municipality, but I can tell you that at the municipal level, our goal is to act, especially in a mid-sized city range.
I'd like to add that a lot of the housing product ends up in the bigger cities of Edmonton and Calgary, yet you have good projects in my municipality, right on the outskirts. We have a piece of land in our downtown core that we're giving to our housing foundation. They'll need to make it mixed housing. It can't be completely subsidized, because we need some of the market housing to offset the below-market. If this accelerator fund can help those foundations increase the number of doors, then we're bringing it.... The same number of doors are being developed, but it'll create a higher percentage of those that are subsidized versus those that are not.
As for the red tape reduction, our level of government—I can quite proudly say—has worked very hard. This is such a priority for us. I'm currently in Regina, at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference. This was the number one topic we spoke about during the entire five-day conference: how to get more housing product out, and what we can do as municipalities—things like parking regulations. We can and should be doing that.
We can create tool kits, if you need them, to help municipalities adjust their realm of responsibility and work more closely with the provincial government. I think that's always key: working closely.