There is so much going on right now in the building codes and standards environment that we have a lot of challenges. We know we need to be more energy-efficient with greenhouse gas emissions. There's talk not just about carbon emissions, but about carbon embodied in buildings. Then we have all of this climate change adaptation resiliency that we need to adjust to.
When we look at all of this, we also have this other big challenge of housing affordability. It's really important that we pull that all together, consider it and find the best ways to address all of this, while also recognizing that maybe some of this shouldn't be regulated yet until we find better ways to build things to be more cost-effective.
A lot of the energy needs to go into research and development and innovation focused around affordability. We have this challenge and we need to get there. However, before we regulate, let's do the work to find new technologies and test them out, make sure they work and make sure they're not having other unintended consequences.
The challenge right now is that these are all happening one on top of the other and there are a lot of things happening. We need to do this right away and it is urgent, but it's also critical that we get it right and we balance it all.
When you rush things through the code system, you miss things, or you can miss things, and that can result in other, bigger problems. We've seen that historically in Canada as well, when we've had major failures because things weren't accounted for in the code.