Industry committee  Traditionally, new home builders are able to prevent a whole host of competition by owning the very rare land resource. If we could create competition by manufacturing housing in a new way that's disconnected from land ownership, that competition for the building products and the

Industry committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Poilievre. It's actually a very important part of our philosophical underpinning that we address affordability in housing stock. It's becoming an extreme issue not only in Ottawa, but across the country. Manufacturing practices do have a whole hos

Industry committee  Municipalities in Ontario, but also with the previous government in Ontario, made some pretty drastic manoeuvres to intensify growth within existing urban areas instead of allowing for responsible and sustainable growth to continue outside of existing urban areas. That has led to

Industry committee  Your referred-to increase statistics are actually very much correct. It is a very severe issue in the cost of a new home.

Industry committee  Thank you very much for the question. It may come as a surprise, but my personal point of view, which is based on both academic interest and also the entrepreneurial spirit of our organization and my own background in business, is that business needs to remain in a competitive e

Industry committee  It's a wonderful question. I really appreciate your asking it. It would take me weeks to sort of get through it, but I would say that planned-use planning, particularly in Ontario, has not kept pace with the required flexibility that's going to be needed for a zillion cities of

Industry committee  Members of committee and Madam Chair, I thank everyone for having me here today and obviously for the attention being paid to such an important issue. I sent a presentation. If it could be presented on the screen, I'll speak to the slides.

Industry committee  That's fair enough. The Advanced Building Innovation Company, which I co-founded with my business partner Troy van Haastrecht, is a venture that has set out with nothing less than the mission and the vision of a full reform of the homebuilding sector. We are a land development c