Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have to say that I'm completely opposed to all of this. In fact, things like renovictions and all these things we're talking about, trying to demonize private sector landlords, are absolutely 1000% provincial jurisdiction. The one thing we have some ability to affect when it comes to housing at this level of government is supply and assisting with getting some supply done.
If we're going to do any study here at this committee, that study should be on why billions of dollars have been promised to the CMHC. It's like a straitjacket, because community groups and various different investors that are trying to get units built—I can give you several examples all across Canada—can't get any funding out of the CMHC. To me, that's the real problem; that's the real challenge we have. It's an area we actually have some responsibility over. We actually can effect some change on it.
This other stuff is really provincial jurisdiction, with landlord and tenant acts and all that kind of stuff. It doesn't really affect anything we do here. I'm not going to start telling the provinces how to handle their landlord and tenant boards now.
We should focus on why, in fact, after promising literally billions for the last seven years, the situation is worse than it was seven years ago. I think this is a partisan effort to try to demonize certain groups of people when we really should be focusing on what we can actually do around here that we haven't done.