Thanks, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the ministers for their attendance here this morning.
Minister Fraser, you've been very clear in terms of emphasizing the importance of working with other levels of government and other partners in this space to get us out of the housing crisis. You've also been very clear that making investments is important in terms of reaching the objectives and goals that we have as they relate to building new housing supply and, more importantly, new affordable housing supply.
I want to address the issue of the all-of-government approach and focus on the provinces very quickly.
When Ms. Gillis was here a couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to ask about creating the same healthy tension with provinces that we've created with municipalities—the accelerator fund is a great example—and incentivizing them with policies and/or finances to come to the table when they may be reluctant.
I'm in the unenviable position of living in a province that doesn't have an affordable housing policy. It doesn't have a housing policy. Much like the members opposite—their Conservative cousins federally—they have taken the trickle-down approach, where they just hope that these things happen philanthropically through the private development industry. That doesn't happen, as we know. As you pointed out, it didn't happen for 30 years.
Can I get an understanding in terms of what we're doing to create healthy tensions with the provinces, specifically the Province of Ontario? We're providing billions of dollars in infrastructure investments. I'll use transit as an example. How do we ensure that in this case the Province of Ontario is at the table at a minimum on the housing side of things to support the initiatives that we have and that municipalities are bringing to the table as well?