Thank you very much to the member for the question and for her participation in the committee and asking some really good questions to the delegations.

I think that the 1.5 million number is really a political number, obviously, that the government wants to throw around. We can come up with whatever number we want, but at the end of the day it’s what we’re willing to do to actually get meaningful results. And when we look at this bill, it’s not designed to get meaningful results, like some of the things that we have proposed and that the member has proposed, such as inclusionary zoning, such as targeting missing middle housing. There’s some effective ways we can do that through the planning process, but this legislation does none of it.

Look, the 1.5 million target and all of those targets that have to do with housing supply, they’re not focused on the supply that we actually need, which is affordable housing supply. You can build all kinds of—and in the election, we talked about building highways that no one needs leading to homes that no one can afford. That’s what I see as the policy of this government: a focus on homes that no one can afford.