 We know people have faced significant challenges right across the country in terms of housing and as a government We've stepped up over the past many many years with a national housing strategy that helped lead towards the investments that built this place our partnerships on initiatives like reaching home and combating homelessness which made significant investments and increases to over the past years are all part of Understanding that housing doesn't have a one-size-fits-all solution There are many different things and measures that we've put forward to support on housing whether it's a first-time homebuyer's savings account that has allowed hundreds of thousands of families to Save up for a down payment in their first home whether it's initiatives like the rapid housing strategy that Converted homes and created homes quickly during the pandemic and beyond or whether it's initiatives like the Reaching home program to combat homelessness or the housing accelerator, but the housing accelerator is a particular program that Really came together Because we listened and we looked at even with all the investments We've been making over the past years and housing there was a need to do more so we sat down With community leaders and mayors like him right across the country to talk about what the barriers were Why wasn't Canada building enough housing quickly for our growing population and it came down to obviously many many different factors There was a need for greater densification. There's a need for ability to shift zoning more rapidly There is a needing a need to look at red tape and how we can accelerate processes within Municipal structures and all that needed investments and support so that Municipalities and councils could actually tackle the big changes the structural changes in processes and zoning and densification that would lead to unlocking The housing needs that we had to meet in the coming years So that's where we put forward four billion dollar housing accelerator fund to do just that and We've been working with now 20 cities across the country that have signed the housing accelerator agreements that rewards cities that have been forward thinking Ambitious willing to challenge the way things used to be done willing to challenge Nimbism and Get things done to grow communities and to meet the needs of the future and that's exactly what this has been about The fund for the acceleration of the housing is there to create more houses more rapidly across the country We have been able to tackle the issues of densification, the issues of zoning The bureaucracy that slows down the processes, all sorts of challenges that municipalities were facing in building housing more rapidly with these investments of four billion dollars across the country We have been able and we will unlock hundreds of thousands of new units during the next year Here in Guelph we're talking about 750 new units minimum over the coming couple of year few years and over the next 10 years 10 close to 10,000 new units that we can project But the reality is as we change the way things are built in communities like this right across the country We get to see more and more unlocked in meaningful ways to meet the challenges of the future That's what this is all about Recognizing that partnerships across orders of government, you know leaning on ambitious and visionary local leaders from municipal leaders like him to all the great community Organizations who've been working particularly here in Guelph for decades to solve some really challenging and persistent problems Faced by so many citizens This is what this is what it's all about. It's getting things done in concrete ways that are going to help people C'est notre engagement auprès des Canadiens de reconnaître que oui, on est en train de vivre des moments difficiles à travers le monde et ici au Canada mais on a les solutions quand on travaille ensemble quand on collabore, quand on fait les investissements ciblés nécessaire pour débloquer les processus et la croissance dont on a besoin On va continuer de bâtir un pays meilleur pour tous We know that the promise of Canada is under threat that promise that every generation Can stand on the shoulders of generations before and succeed even more or people are worried that that might not hold What we're focusing on is securing that promise of Canada making sure that we see the best possible future for next Generations while we build a strong economy that works for all Canadians at the same time Canada is the best country in the world. We're going to keep working together to make it even better