One of the things that you'll appreciate in my position is that I want to build healthy relationships with governments of different partisan affiliations in every region of the country.
To a province, my sense is that everyone recognizes there's a need for more housing. There are different viewpoints about what kinds of housing we need, how we're going to build it and whether we should embrace urban sprawl or whether we should focus on intensification where services already exist.
My view, particularly in medium- and larger-sized cities, is that intensification is absolutely the way to go, particularly when you have a generation of young people who want to live in urban environments, who want to give to the community and who have professional opportunities that are unparalleled in other parts of the country.
My view is that we need to make sure we're identifying shared priorities, regardless of which province. I can tell you there are projects that we both want to get behind. I actually think we would benefit from improving the coordination of our programs, both for housing and infrastructure, with the project selection and the timing of the release of capital into the market for these different kinds of projects.
My approach is to pick up the phone, to call people, to meet them in person where it warrants, and to actually talk through some of the challenges we're facing, because my sense is that, if you can agree on the nature of the problem, sometimes you'll realize you can pursue solutions in parallel and sometimes you can pursue a common solution together. Depending on the partner, depending on the province, I think there are wins for us to put on the table in every region of the country.