OTTAWA--"A faulty national building code and the R-2000 program are at the heart of the rotting condo crisis" said John Cummins, M.P. (Delta-South Richmond).

Cummins made the following statement in Parliament today on this issue:

"Mr. Speaker, B.C. has a billion dollar disaster in the making, the so-called leaky condo crisis.

A renowned Canadian building scientist, Joe Lstiburek, blames the federal government's national building code and its R-2000 program.

Despite loads of research that warned of the problem and of serious design flaws in R-2000 homes, the government did nothing.

It's no coincidence that most of Greater Vancouver's failing buildings were constructed after the advent of the Department of Natural Resources' R-2000 program.

Instead of addressing the problems found in British Columbia, CMHC spent its energy trying to see what effect poly vapour barriers had in the dry prairie climate.

National standards and programs were never adapted to B.C. and we now have a billion dollar disaster.