My question this morning is to the Premier. Another expert report has just been released, this time using advanced mapping technology, that shows yet again this government does not need to build on the greenbelt to achieve our housing goals. Yes, we are in a housing crisis. We need housing; we need affordable housing. But this study shows that Ontario could deliver the next 30 years of housing in the greater Toronto-Hamilton area using a portion of land already zoned for development.

My question: Given the mounting evidence that we already have the necessary land to build housing, why are you putting the greenbelt, our farms, our forests and our wetlands at risk?

I want to thank my colleague the member for Hamilton Mountain. You know your community so well, and you do such amazing work, so I want to congratulate you on being such a fantastic MPP for your constituents.

I know that the time went so quickly for you and that you wanted to talk a lot about Bill 74, the vulnerable persons alert act. So I’m going to just give you a few minutes, if you’d like to say some things that you haven’t said—how you hope that the government will implement this, the background to this, why it’s such an important bill, and why it’s a perfectly fit and corollary to this bill that we’re debating today about keeping communities safe.