What I can say is that our membership has been clear, and it is one of our top priorities. There are three priorities at the FCM: housing, transit, and green infrastructure.
Housing affordability is a challenge for all of our local government members, every single one. What we've put forward as part of our submission is that we are asking out of the, I think, $1.9-billion allocation over the first two years, for $1.3 billion of it being put towards state of good repair for existing infrastructure while providing some flexibility for new projects to come forward to build new housing units as well, maintaining the CMHC funding that is currently in place, and ensuring that these streams of funding aren't lost to other services when we know that our population is aging and that the need will grow over time.
These are two major pieces that we're asking for. The underpinning of that is that we need to have the flexibility to apply it with a local lens. The experience in Ontario is different from certainly in Vancouver, where we have the poorest postal code in Canada, and we have thousands of units that are necessary. Local governments, in my instance in Vancouver, are willing to make $250-million worth of lands available and submit that as part of the package to the federal government and our provincial government, hoping to lever some solution to this very, very challenging problem.