The act creates departmental legislation for the department of housing, infrastructure and communities. This is a transformation of the existing Department of Infrastructure Canada. The Department of Infrastructure Canada has existed since 2002 by order in council. This legislation provides a legislative basis, but that's not all it does. It also puts housing, infrastructure and communities together from a mandate perspective. Part of that happened with the movement of staff from the Department of Employment and Social Development Canada to Infrastructure Canada who are responsible for homelessness policy.
