Madam Speaker, the member's speech did not deal specifically with this, but the previous member's speech did. The bill by the Leader of the Opposition on housing was discussed in an article in The Globe and Mail not long ago by Campbell Clark. The headline was about a town in my riding. It was, “Pointe-Claire demonstrates the nonsense in [the Leader of the Opposition]'s housing formula”.
Under the Leader of the Opposition's bill, a municipality where the housing stock rose by 15% vis-à-vis the previous year would get some kind of bonus, but one where the rate of increase did not exceed 15% would be penalized. The problem is that it really hurts municipalities that have built a lot of homes in the previous year because they have to exceed that by so much more. There is an example in the article, in which they talk about the city of Kirkland. This is a small municipality next to the city of Pointe-Claire that only built one unit in 2022. This means that Kirkland only has to build two homes the following year to get the incentive, whereas a bigger city would have to build so many more homes to get the incentive or not be penalized. I would like to hear the hon. member's views on that.