Mr. Speaker, my humble question back to my hon. colleague, who I know does a lot of good, important work on housing policy in this place, is about why the Conservative Party would propose to get rid of the supply-side funding that was supporting homebuilding, and has been supporting homebuilding in this country, to fund the GST tax cut. Those two things do not add up, and I know the hon. member knows that the programs need to be in place to drive supply.
There was very little in the Conservative platform. Thank goodness Conservatives are not on this side of the House, because it would not have resulted in the types of housing that need to be built in this country.
We are going to work with municipalities, and we are going to work with cities. As part of the conditions, we will make sure that if they are actually driving up development charges, they will not receive federal funding. That is part of the ongoing oversight of that housing accelerator policy.