Through the chair, thanks to the member for the question.
On housing starts, I agree with you. We see some good results overall for Canada last year.
Some regions have been struggling. Their numbers are down. Toronto in particular is obviously significantly down. Vancouver was down 3% last year, but there are signs that it's soft for the coming years. We'll keep a close eye on that, but we've also seen good growth of housing starts in many regions across Canada, particularly in Quebec and Alberta.
We need to keep focused on seeing success there and on ensuring we're getting more affordable housing built. Development charges are certainly a part of the challenge, particularly in Ontario and B.C. The approach we are taking as a government is with the build communities strong fund and ensuring that a portion of that fund—there's $51 billion proposed there of investment into infrastructure—is for provinces and territories to match and then bring down development charges, to show that the development charges in those provinces are reduced by that amount.