Mr. Speaker, the hon. member talked about supporting capitalism with guardrails. I just really wish this member would support a government that would keep fiscal guardrails.
Moving more to a local level, the mayor, Steven Del Duca, former Liberal leader of Ontario, said that development charges are unfair on new homebuyers, something that I agree with. In fact, the City of Penticton, where I was a councillor, recently increased its development cost charges, something I disagree with. In the next order of business, it actually applied for the housing accelerator, which the government has put forward, on a promise that it would look to lower development cost charges. The hypocrisy that we see from some municipal leaders is huge.
Does the hon. member agree that development cost charges need to be reduced? Does he believe that his housing accelerator is causing some of the problems, where they are seeing some councils increase them, only to say that they are going to backtrack them later?