And they’re uncomfortable; they’re yelling about it, because they know that we’re right. They vote against it every single time. Now they’ve put legislation saying they’re on the side of the little guy. Golly, Speaker.

NIMBYism is one of the most dangerous forces in our politics today. It’s one of the lowest forms of politicking that a prospective candidate can engage in. You promise a group of residents that they won’t have to put up with any new neighbours, they can enjoy all the services themselves and keep the neighbourhood to themselves. We need to make this asinine ideology, this NIMBYism, these NIMBY ideas that the opposition continually ramp up, as politically inconvenient as possible.

It’s not just the NIMBYs saying no to development in their own backyard; now they don’t want homes to be built in anybody else’s backyard. They don’t want to expand settlement areas so that millennials or new Canadians could have a backyard one day. This simply won’t do. As council after council is passing motions pledging to meet their municipal housing targets, working with our government to give families back the dream of home ownership, this PC government stands with them. We support them. We endorse it every step of the way.

Some members will talk about where I sit in this House. They say, “Oh, Graham, you’re in the rump. You’re on the back benches.” Well, I think it’s an honour to represent my community of Brampton North every single day in this House. I tell these opposition members that if they don’t start standing up for their residents, I’ll represent their residents as well. If they don’t want to stand up for new Canadians who move into their neighbourhoods, this PC government will stand up for those new residents. We will get homes built. We will get shovels in the ground.

I expect them to get on board and vote for Bills 97, 23 and 39.