Mr. Speaker, the member for Kingston and the Islands is absolutely right, and he cited Kingston as an example. I can cite Ottawa as an example. In fact, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Carleton, and I share the same city as home. I wonder whether he has spoken with our mayor, Mark Sutcliffe, about this issue and what the mayor's response would be. A very small part of the money that we have given is going toward streamlining the entire process for approving projects, which builders and developers want. They want a simpler process. We are able to use that money to create that incentive to change the bylaws to build more density, so not just one house goes up but up to four houses go up by default, as well as even higher density on bigger sites, so builders can leverage the infrastructure that is available. Then a larger proportion of that money is going toward building affordable housing.
That is the point. We are able to accomplish both. What the Leader of the Opposition would be doing, essentially, by cutting the GST only is raising the margin of profit for developers because they would not pass those savings to the consumers.