It's the result of how policy was developed. I'm not a policy-maker, but my observation is that there's been a pattern of many going to European countries, particularly Scandinavian countries, and liking what they see there, from a sustainability and code perspective. They then build policies around that and target that type of product. Since it's been in those markets—and it's being produced for those markets—I think that, in some cases, the local suppliers are catching up. I would say, in our market, they are to an extent.
These are, in extreme cases, very highly specialized assemblies with quite small markets. When you have an area such as the Lower Mainland of B.C., with very specific code requirements above anywhere else in the country, it's a really small part of the construction supply market on a national scale and then even further on a North American and global scale. There isn't the capacity for the manufacturing industry to make products specifically for small subsets of the Canadian housing market.
That would be my slightly informed response.
