Thanks, Madam Chair.
Mr. Dachis, thanks for appearing today. You caught my ear with permitting time. I toured a Tesla facility in Nevada, and what struck me was how open for business they were. They asked what they could do to make things happen there, and they had a grading permit within two weeks, which would be unheard of in Canada.
That's not the only cost, is it, on competitiveness for Canada? When you look at competitiveness, it's not just zoning and development changes, but it's all the other associated costs, particularly for medium-sized and small builders: compliance costs, tax compliance costs, CPP going up, EI going up, the carbon tax. All of that is making us incredibly uncompetitive, and Canada has been on a nosedive on competitiveness.
Is it not a broader issue than just this regulatory framework under development projects?