Status of Women committee  When we were in government, we started the Housing First initiative. The Housing First initiative took into play all the things around individuals who face barriers to getting into affordable housing. Many other issues need to be taken care of, and they were referred to here. Thi

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. MacArthur, are you aware of what the tax load is per door of a unit? I mean the cumulative tax cost. You're talking about affordability here and an aspiration of making a house affordable for every Canadian by 2030. What do you propose to do regarding

Status of Women committee  That's okay. That's fine. I guess I'm trying to drive a point—and you'll sense my bias as I go through this, as a past president of Ontario Home Builders' Association—which is the fact that right now it takes seven to 10 years for the approvals process of a greenfield site to th

Status of Women committee  That's okay. Let me move on. I have lots to do. I chaired a national housing round table. We had them once a month for the four years prior to this Parliament. We brought in a lot of people from what I would call the public and non-profit sector to give us their thoughts on the

Status of Women committee  It will go directly to individuals, so they can go out and select the kind of housing they want to live in.