Madam Speaker, I grew up in co-op housing, to answer my colleague who just heckled me. Thirty-two years without building those 25,000 units has obviously left us in a huge deficit. In fact, right now we are the lowest in the OECD in non-market housing, at 3.5%. We can look to the Netherlands, where it is at 34%; Denmark, where it is at 21%; or France, where it is at 17% and its goal is 20%.
Does my colleague believe that maybe it would be better if we took the GST and returned it to communities where it was collected to build non-market housing? He talked about not telling communities what to do, but how about putting it back in the hands of communities for non-market housing so we could scale up? Maybe he could speak to the importance of that.