Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our guests for coming.
I'll start with Mr. Allen, Ms. Blake, and move to Mr. Marcel again.
When I listened to your presentations, you defined the challenge. Underlying this for our committee is how we solve some of the challenges and how we prevent the problems.
To get to those latter two points, I am curious. How did we get here? Was it poor infrastructure planning? Was it just, shucks, no one saw this boom coming, or did people see it and ignore it? Different people have different opinions. I'm curious, both of you individually, what you think it was. Eight percent growth in nine years--that's a doubling of the population, by the rule of 72.
Could you give me your opinions as to what has led to this infrastructure crunch? I've heard various other ones, but since you're both close to the ground there, it would be appreciated. What got us into this bottleneck?