Here’s what this guy has voted against when it comes to the housing file: He voted against our housing renewal strategy, which has provided over $4 billion to our community housing advocates to deal with rent supplements, bolstering homeless shelters and supportive housing—something that he has talked about but always seemed to vote against. What else has he voted against? The social services relief fund, which provided our municipal partners $1.2 billion to improve homeless shelters, to protect staff, and to support vulnerable people. He also voted—and I can’t believe that he actually did this—against our creation of the Homelessness Prevention Program, where we added $25 million, where we consolidated a number of supportive housing programs to try to make it streamlined and to be able to have a coordinated municipal response.

It doesn’t matter whether it was $4 billion for community housing, $1.2 billion for the social services relief fund or $25 million for homelessness—each and every time, the Green Party and this leader voted against that measure.

Part of what we’re doing in Bill 23 is we’re again incentivizing the construction of rental accommodation by eliminating the development charges so we can get shovels in the ground faster. So the tenants in London, the tenants across Ontario will have affordable rental opportunities. That’s exactly why the government put this policy in place.

But again, Speaker, I want to highlight that this government has made some significant tenant protections as part of our strengthening community housing and protecting tenants in Ontario.

And I want to again let those tenants know what New Democrats did when they had an opportunity to stand up for increased fines against unethical landlords: They voted against it.