Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I'll start with you, Mr. Usher. In 2022, federal public servants warned the immigration department about a lack of housing. This was in an article that came out: “The deputy minister, among others, was warned in 2022 that housing construction had not kept up with the pace of population growth.” You said in your 2023 report that “there are increasing pressures from communities around the number of international students being recruited in the wake of various housing crises.”
Did you raise these alarm bells around housing with the government at that time?