What the BC government is doing to build those houses is that they’re not afraid of building government housing. They’re not afraid of just rolling up their sleeves and saying, “Hey, in the government, we’re going to build housing.” Because that’s what we did from 1945 to 1995 in Ontario: the government built housing. The private sector was also building housing and we need the private sector as well, but the government wasn’t afraid of doing it and the government built the housing that made it affordable.

After the Second World War, the government was building the strawberry box war houses that you still see in communities across this province. They built it so that the soldiers would have a home to return to when they got here. The government did this. This government? Somehow, the Conservative Party—I don’t know what happened to them, but they call that a communist plan. I actually heard the member from Perth call it a communist plan.

So, what he really called was all the former Conservative Premiers who were building public housing, and that includes Bill Davis, George Drew, John Robarts, Leslie Frost—he called them all communists because they wanted to build housing because it’s a solution that works. The British Columbia NDP are not afraid of building housing; they’re doing it and they’re getting it done and they’re getting it right and people will have a place to live in British Columbia. I wish it was that case in Ontario.

The 413 is being built and it’s crossing 132 watersheds, and also there are 26 species that are at risk from the development of the 413. There are tens of thousands of acres of farmland that could be paved over with the 413, especially if it leads to more sprawl. It’s not the kind of housing that we need and it’s certainly not going to leave the next generation or the next seven generations with a healthy environment. That is the legacy that we have to leave the next generation.