It’s my pleasure to welcome two great workers: Deb Ransom and Barb Gonyou, from my constituency office—two great workers, serving the people of Ontario, in Elgin–Middlesex–London.

Thank you for the well-researched question from the member from Thornhill.

Speaker, last week on November 27, Ontario held its first-ever housing forum, at Exhibition Place. It was a great event. We had home builders there. Modular home builders were there. The great not-for-profit sector was represented. Municipalities, councillors, mayors and wardens were there, planners and, obviously, all industry stakeholders. It was a great event where everyone shared their expertise and experience.

And what happened? We had a great cross-pollination of ideas and solutions came forward. These solutions are going to be incorporated into our next housing supply action plan—by the way, which is working, because we’ve seen record housing starts in the last three years and record rental starts in the last three years. The plan is working.

We know there are headwinds. We’re going to work hard to challenge those. It might even be inflation and maybe the carbon tax—maybe, maybe not.

At the end, Speaker, we’re building—

We’re working with our municipal partners. In fact, Speaker, a couple of weeks ago, I was joined with the great member of Scarborough Centre, along with the mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, and we visited 39 Dundalk Drive in Scarborough, where they put up 57 supportive housing units, all modular. And I would point out that modular construction was built here in Ontario, built in Cambridge, Ontario, an Ontario-made solution that will continue to succeed.

Scale and speed is what this is about, Speaker. Modular is another tool in the toolbox. It will support our housing supply action plan and our homelessness prevention plan. Everyone deserves a roof over their head. The job is getting done.