Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there have been past initiatives that were tried by previous governments to enhance building in market communities that were being impacted by increased resource development. We find after a while, though, that those initiatives get adjusted to by the market and get incorporated. I speak specifically of past governments who instituted a program of giving $10,000 additional to potential purchasers so that they could afford their new homes. We found that any subsidy that we have like that soon gets swallowed up by the system and just drives up the prices in that area.
We feel that with the land development in non-tax-based communities, one of the things that is happening is because the smaller communities are on the outskirts of development, larger centres are being able to take advantage of that development where small communities aren't. It's still very expensive to develop any kind of a lot program. At one time in previous governments, there used to be programs for municipal governments to develop land areas in their communities. That was removed and tried to be incorporated into the system. It hasn't worked successfully. This is an avenue to try to bring some development into the smaller communities. Thank you.