Thank you, and through you, Chair, they have a massive role to play.
First of all, it's coming to the table appropriately, in a respectful and collaborative way. I think that everyone at every level of government has said that we can't really attack this crisis if we don't come at it in a collaborative way.
I feel like the provincial government has created a lot of issues, to be very blunt with you, that have not gone very well. Municipalities, especially the Ontario Big City Mayors caucus.... I don't know of one mayor who isn't laser-focused on trying to help with housing, but the regulatory and legislative changes that have been pouring down on municipalities have not really helped produce a lot of new supply. I respectfully say that we need to kind of get over these issues of trying to refocus the government on trying to help, especially when it comes to infrastructure.
When municipalities cannot receive money to help with infrastructure, that same amount of money has to then be spread across the entire tax base, which is already burdened right now. We're here to talk about affordability. That's an issue every municipality is facing with our budgets coming up right now. There is a form of downloading that is occurring to municipalities, and municipalities are struggling with their budgets to try to figure out how to balance things and create infrastructure to unlock houses, because we have pledges to do. It seems like we're constantly on a merry-go-round.
I would submit that the province has a big role to play, and in the City of Guelph and other cities, we're ready to play with them in a collaborative way, just as we would with the federal government.