Mr. Speaker, first and foremost, I want to thank my colleague from St. Catharines for the shout-outs and plugs for my private member's bill. I appreciate it very much.
I want to say that the member really distilled the essence of what the bill is about. Bill C-20 is about affordable housing.
One of our colleagues across the way mentioned earlier that he was a home builder, and I respect that. Any home builder who is building private sector housing is in it to build homes but also to make a profit. That is fine and absolutely their prerogative. However, private sector builders will not build affordable housing unless they have some level of support from some level of government in order to make it economically viable.
I wonder if my colleague could touch a bit on the importance of the federal government in providing the scale of affordable housing that we need—