Thank you, Speaker. I’ll be short so my friend member Babikian can ask his question quickly.

Anyway, I appreciate the comments from member Vanthof. Thank you very much to the NDP caucus for supporting the bill at second reading. I know that the crux of this bill is in our industrial land shortage.

I wanted to quote a 2021 report from the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing on industrial land shortage, which says, “If suitable land and buildings are not available, prospective manufacturers will bypass Ontario and those already here will invest elsewhere.”

It goes on to say, “The shortage of industrial land threatens” the manufacturing “sector that is vital to Ontario’s economic and social well-being.”

The goal of the bill that we are debating today is to try and solve this very problem in the St. Thomas-Central Elgin area. I wanted to find out if the member agrees with the findings of this report as a general part of supporting this bill.