Sure. One of the things I was going to talk about was Build Canada Homes. That's the major effort now. We need to realize on that effort and that opportunity. Again, in the things we would like to see from there as it makes its way and develops its policies is that pipeline that I was talking about earlier for creating decades of demand.
We just took a delegation of small and medium-sized enterprises to Sweden. Sweden, in the 1970s, did a one-million homes initiative. That's what spurred their country to become a country that builds 80% of its housing needs in factories. Build Canada Homes can create that demand and create decades of demand.
On de-risking investment, I never got to finish my comments there, but there are other things that government can do in that regard through Build Canada Homes, such as taking equity positions, loans and those kinds of things to help these firms de-risk. Again, I was talking about fixing procurement and payment approaches to match factory construction. Some of that money can go to retooling sawmills. Then again, the buy Canadian procurement policy needs to specify in it Canadian lumber products, panel products and wood products.
I will say that my concluding remarks were going to be that the forest sector can deliver a triple word score. We can deliver you low-carbon affordable housing and non-residential construction using sustainable wood and forest products created here in our sustainable well-managed forests, and that can support the 200,000 direct jobs in the forest sector across the country, plus the 200,000 additional indirect jobs as well as jobs in construction.
Nobody is talking about it right now, but there are 70,000 fewer construction workers in Toronto and 30,000 fewer construction workers in Vancouver right now, because the market slowed down. We need to get the market up and running. The government could be a catalyst to help that market start to recover.
We need to start looking at these other things, at different ways of approaching it.