Mr. Speaker, I will tell the House what it is like in Parksville, British Columbia, where we had a Conservative mayor. He accelerated development permits. We built more development in Parksville than at any other time in history and probably more than any other community on Vancouver Island. However, rents did not come down; they actually went up.
What we need and what Canadians need is affordable non-market housing to go hand in hand with the private sector. That is not happening with Conservative mayors. They are not addressing the root problem.
Like I said earlier, the same mayor fought BC Housing, which wanted to build a shelter in that community to make sure that people who were living on the street had their basic needs met. They actually went to court and stopped it. It is one of the only communities in this country with over 10,000 people that has no shelter. The same Conservative mayor is running for the nomination for the Conservative Party, so we know exactly what we are going to get when Conservatives lead at the local government level, the provincial level or the federal level.
Maybe my colleague can explain why Conservative mayors are blocking shelters and why they are not building non-market housing.