Mr. Jim Baneham:

I was in the Housing Agency at the time. One of the first tasks of the Housing Agency was examining the plan proposed by local authorities in respect of the land aggregation scheme.

Regarding the metrics applied, they were: whether they were zoned for housing; whether they had access to services and could be serviced; and their proximity and so on to amenities such as schools and other community infrastructure. One thing I would say about the assessment relative to what we are doing now with the land acquisition fund is the criteria was not time-based in the way we would look at it now. There was kind of a broader interpretation of whether something could be developed for housing. Again, going back to the context of the time, it was not clear when these lands would be developed and there was not a particular assessment of how soon they may be developed. However, they were assessed as whether they could be developed for housing.