Madam Chair, to Canadians now this is not a game. These are questions this housing minister should know as a representative of Canada. These are important issues to Canadians. For a building permit now, the time has increased from 90 days to almost a full year. This is unacceptable right now. This is due to red tape and various other things that are happening in municipalities and it is unacceptable. Builders are calling me all the time about how long it takes to get conservation authority approval, truss designs and on and on. Red tape now costs an extra $350,000 per house in somewhere like Toronto and $650,000 in Vancouver. Why has the minister's government done nothing to cut the red tape that we see now?
In the House of Commons on May 15th, 2023. See this statement in context.