I want to thank you for your leadership and the work you're doing on team Canada strong, especially on the building side.
We know if we need to build anything with respect to homes, we need 51 different trades to complete just one home. It's important work and, again, this ultimately complements that work.
If we can reflect back on something I mentioned earlier, you may have to go where the work is. When you do that, you face an industry standard in a different jurisdiction that may require you to get more certifications. That is time. That's money. It's up to $5,000 out of your pocket if you need to get some certification in a different jurisdiction. Each different trade has different costs involved with that. That time can be a year to 18 months.
For certain carpenters.... If you look at British Columbia, it has its own building codes. Often, some codes differ even in different jurisdictions within the province. That's the immense level of work that needs to take place.
One of the other colleague's questions was why we can't just go and whip through that and get it done right away. It's because we have to respect each industry and its standards. I could even go back to how, in the 1990s in British Columbia, we had a leaky condo issue. There was a mass need to build more homes very quickly, and those standards weren't there, and then 10 years later, it was a major problem within the province.
Those are mistakes that we can't make when we're trying to rapidly do things and build them quickly. We have to ensure that the standards are there.