Thank you very much, Chair.
It has been a very interesting and informative session tonight.
We've been talking about the fact that big-dollar ambition and big-dollar programs face the shrinkage of bureaucracy and other levels of government and sometimes...very small or greatly diminished outcomes. We know that the rapid housing initiative by itself is $1 billion to be disbursed, ideally, in six months, with 3,000 units built within a year and part of that going to indigenous housing in urban and rural situations. If that were to be rolled out continuously—twice a year at $2 billion for 6,000 units—over ten years it would still fall far short of the indigenous housing objective of 73,000 units and $25 billion investment.
I'll come to you, Mr. Lawson-Swain and your background with CMHC. With regard to indigenous housing, would you rather see.... Perhaps a $25-billion upfront commitment from the federal government is an unrealistic expectation. Would you like to see that $25 billion delivered again to, if not a CMHC-like organization, but an indigenous-led national organization, which would itself disburse that $25 billion?