Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's always a treat to be back under your wise leadership.
Minister, thanks for coming.
I'd like to ask you a little bit about housing starts. I would note that housing starts are up a little bit in Canada across the board, and that is good news. I heard the Liberal members talking about that. That's great news.
Interestingly enough, they've fallen off a cliff in places like the GTA and Vancouver. Of course, one of the main reasons is that those are two regions of the country that have particularly high development charges and local fees and charges.
One of the things that came up in the election campaign and that the Prime Minister promised to do was to address the issue of these outrageously high development charges, which we now know are halting starts. He promised to cut them in half, yet we see nothing about that. Why is that?