It appears, Speaker, just like there is in the federal House, there’s a bit of Liberal-NDP alliance here in question period this morning provincially.

We’ve been crystal clear. We took a plan to the people last June under the leadership of Premier Ford that our government would build upon our success with our housing supply action plans and not only have a housing supply action plan each and every year under a re-elected government, under Premier Ford’s leadership, but that we would build 1.5 million homes by 2031.

Every measure we’ve put forward, whether it was More Homes, More Choice in 2019; More Homes for Everyone; More Homes Built Faster, and now we have the Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, New Democrats have not supported it.

We’ve said many times we want to work with the federal government. We’ve got a great relationship with Minister Hussen, the housing minister. I don’t have a relationship with Mr. Guilbeault, so I can’t speak to that. But we want to move forward, and I know at our upcoming provincial-territorial meeting, we’ll have more to say about how the federal government can support our government.

Earlier today we had a young class group up there. This is what motivates our government, to ensure that those young people who want an opportunity to have housing close to where they grow up or that senior who decides that, at their stage of life, they want to downsize but there’s nothing that’s available in their price range where they’ve grown up and where they’ve raised their family—these are the people that our government, under the leadership of Premier Ford, are standing up for. These are the people for whom we’re going to ensure that by 2031 we’re going to hit our housing targets. We’re going to ensure that we have a plan in place that we build upon.

For the last two years, we’ve had 30-year highs in terms of housing starts. We’ve had an all-time high when it comes to rental starts. The one consistent measure is NDP opposition to—

This is a petition created and signed by residents of Don Valley West, including, I am pleased to say, our local city councillor, Jaye Robinson, concerning the lack of planning and support for infrastructure improvements in tandem with provincially imposed targets for development. It reads as follows:

“To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

“Whereas people want to live in a community with good access to services and amenities;

“Whereas the city of Toronto adopted the Yonge Eglinton Secondary Plan (2018) with predominantly mid-rise density for the Bayview focus area, which was supported by the community following extensive consultation, but was overridden by the government of Ontario, permitting high-rises in 2019 without further consideration or consultation;

“Whereas the scale of the high-rise development applications proposed in the Bayview focus area creates needs for public infrastructure, such as schools, medical services, daycares and parks, which exceed those provided for in city (and provincial) planning;

“We, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as follows:

“That the government of Ontario immediately restore the Bayview focus area plan as approved by the city of Toronto in the Yonge Eglinton Secondary Plan (2018).”

I wholeheartedly endorse this petition. I will affix my name to it and ask page Silas to bring it to the Clerk.