Under Building Canada, every province is entitled to $25 million a year, for a total of $175 million a year. The process is very quick. They just have to submit a letter outlining the projects they'd like to spend the money on and we can flow the money.
We have offered to all provinces that if they would like to accelerate that and seek the full $175 million, we're prepared to do that. We have a good amount of support. Some provinces will want it all right away. Others will want it over two or three years. We make the offer on the acceleration. It has been generally positively received. It depends on the nature of the project. If you're dealing with something in northern Canada, obviously the construction season is shorter. You have to get materials in and out. There's significant transportation. If you're looking at simply resurfacing a road, obviously you can move more expeditiously. If you're looking at, as we will be in Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, social housing retrofits, they can be done far more expeditiously than building a new $100 million building.
We've offered this directly to all the provinces, so I think we're prepared to be as helpful as we can by accelerating the existing investments in addition to the new initiative we've come forward with. Sometimes a significant amount of planning has to be done, and now engineers can get to work, architects can get to work, and planners can get to work, which is good.
We also know that the best way to get infrastructure going in the future is to make decisions now. Even if it's going to take two or three years, let's not take two or three years to make the decision and then two or three years to get the project going. The good news is that we have a good amount of interest from around the country, from provinces, on this. That acceleration is just another effort on our part to be constructive and helpful.