One thing I'd say is that it's a very difficult challenge for the federal government, because it doesn't control a number of the factors here. For example, Ontario has its own building code, the Planning Act and the Development Charges Act and so on and so forth. They're Ontario statutes, so it's the Ontario government that needs to get involved.
As you mentioned, the development charge announcement is great, but that's dependent on municipalities getting involved. What if they don't? How long is that going to take? How long are these deals going to take to get sorted out?
This is where, at a provincial level, for example in Ontario, sometimes the province has to step in and say to the municipalities, “You're going to do this,” because those municipalities are creatures of the province. Politically, that's very difficult, and I understand that.
Bill 98 just received royal assent the other day in Ontario. It's very good. There are significant reforms to planning, zoning, the rights of professionals and recognizing those rights and site plan approvals. There are things happening there at the provincial level that are very positive.
The big challenge here is that we need to be a little more nimble, we need to measure things better, and we need to set real targets with a plan and hit them. That's a technocratic challenge. I think we're getting there, but it's still taking too long, especially if you look at that incredible disconnect between the targets that were set by the federal and provincial governments and where we are now, which was pointed out in my opening statement and by my fellow panellists. We're not hitting those targets. In fact, we're going in the opposite direction. That's a fire alarm that gets set off, in my mind.