Madam Speaker, I would like to read a quote:
Here, we should be encouraging our municipalities to build housing more rapidly. I will ensure that the funding for municipal infrastructure corresponds with the number of houses that the municipality manages to build. I will require every big city to increase building permits by 15% per year or they will lose their infrastructure funding.
Do members know who said that? It was the Leader of the Opposition. That is exactly what the housing accelerator fund is. It is a program that ties the funding to municipalities to their ability to create more housing. It is not just money that is being given to bloat bureaucracy, as this member suggests. It is actual money that is tied to creating more housing, and the municipalities have to prove that they have been able to increase the housing. That is not just our idea. The quote that I just read, supporting this exact concept, was from June 7, 2023, from the Leader of the Opposition. Therefore, for the member to be critical of the housing accelerator fund is to be critical of the proposal that was made by his own leader.