Minister, the Canadian Home Builders' Association appeared at this committee recently for a study on adapting infrastructure and resilient infrastructure. Several witnesses called for the affordability principle to be a core principle in the national building code.
Your government proposes some changes to the national building code under its emissions reduction plan that have been criticized by home builders as potentially increasing the cost of housing by an average of 8%.
Minister, I'm assuming that your department has done its analysis of the proposed regulations. Can you guarantee Canadians today that the emissions reduction plan won't raise the cost of housing for them?