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{
"time": "2026-05-04 16:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mike Moffatt",
"fr": "Mike Moffatt"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9341466\" data-originallang=\"en\">The only three I had memorized.... I'd have to go back and look.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9341467\" data-originallang=\"en\">Every country defines a housing start differently. Australia and the United States define it as when the excavation starts on site. That counts as a housing start. In the U.K., it is when they start pouring the foundation. It's in between. In Canada, we define it as when that foundation reaches ground level.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9341468\" data-originallang=\"en\">These distinctions didn't used to matter all that much back when Canada was mostly building single detached homes, because the timeline from when you started digging the hole to when you poured the foundation and the foundation reached grade was usually a matter of weeks. Oftentimes, that was all happening in the same month anyway.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9341469\" data-originallang=\"en\">Now we're moving to more complex high-rise apartments, most of which have underground parking. The timeline from when you start digging the hole to when the foundation reaches grade can be up to about 18 months or so different.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9341466\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les trois seules choses que j\u2019avais en t\u00eate... Il faudrait que je revienne en arri\u00e8re pour v\u00e9rifier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9341467\" data-originallang=\"en\">Chaque pays d\u00e9finit diff\u00e9remment le d\u00e9but d\u2019une construction. L\u2019Australie et les \u00c9tats-Unis le d\u00e9finissent comme le moment o\u00f9 les travaux d\u2019excavation commencent sur le chantier. Cela compte comme \u00e9tant le d\u00e9but d\u2019une construction. Au Royaume-Uni, c\u2019est lorsque l\u2019on commence \u00e0 couler les fondations. C\u2019est quelque part entre les deux. Au Canada, on le d\u00e9finit comme le moment o\u00f9 les fondations atteignent le niveau du sol.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9341468\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces distinctions n'avaient pas beaucoup d'importance \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque o\u00f9 le Canada construisait principalement des maisons individuelles, car le d\u00e9lai entre le d\u00e9but du creusement de la tranch\u00e9e, le coulage des fondations et le moment o\u00f9 celles\u2011ci atteignaient le niveau du sol n'\u00e9tait g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement qu'une question de semaines. Quoi qu'il en soit, tout cela se passait souvent \u00e0 l'int\u00e9rieur d'un mois.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9341469\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd\u2019hui, nous sommes pass\u00e9s \u00e0 des immeubles d\u2019habitation \u00e9lev\u00e9s et plus complexes. La plupart ont un stationnement souterrain. Le d\u00e9lai entre le d\u00e9but du creusement de la fosse et le moment o\u00f9 les fondations atteignent le niveau du sol peut aller jusqu'\u00e0 18 mois.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/human-resources/45-1/35/mike-moffatt-5/",
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"source_id": "13491497",
"document_url": "/committees/human-resources/45-1/35/",
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