Thank you for this. I absolutely loved the question.
It's incumbent upon all of us, I think, to do everything we can to get creative and fight the climate crisis. One of the things we can do is find technologies or products that have been around for a very long time and can sequester carbon. Wood construction is actually one way we can do this. In my view, it provides an opportunity not only to use cleaner building materials but also to sequester carbon in the final product.
The other piece that is really exciting about this question is that we have an opportunity to fundamentally change how homes get built in this country. We do not build cars today the way we did a hundred years ago. We do not build anything today the way we did a hundred years ago, unless you're talking about houses. If we are going to solve the housing crisis, we need to build more homes and factories, embrace mass timber and embrace 3-D printing technologies that are emerging to figure out how we can build far more quickly.
If we actually scale up by innovating the way we build homes, including mass timber, we can do the right thing to fight climate change, and we can also build way more homes way more quickly. It's something I want to pursue vigorously, because if we don't, there is no path forward that will allow us to build the 3.5 million additional homes we need to solve Canada's supply gap that exists today.