Madam Speaker, I guess there was not really a question, but the language around that is designed to identify areas in this country where it is particularly expensive and slow to get homes built. Our point in this discussion is that, right now, governments make too much money on housing. They charge too much and, at the local level, they take far too long to approve the development of new housing.
When it can take six years to get a piece of property zoned to precisely what is on either side, it costs money. In the real world, time is money, and that makes housing more expensive. That is not the case around here, of course; this place is ridiculous.
The fact of the matter is that we need to reduce the cost of government on every new home. The way we are going to do that is not by shovelling more money out the door and hoping municipalities do better; there have to be consequences.