Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's good to be back at one of my favourite committees, HUMA.
I want to thank the witnesses for their testimony today. I'll get right into my questions.
On the housing accelerator fund, obviously, we're still very much in the consulting phase. That's why we're looking for some of your advice on how best to shape some of this. The program falls under the national housing strategy, which we've seen, in five years and $24.9 billion committed, has only built 91,000 new units, according to the government's budget. This new program alone is expected to build more than that, 100,000 more units, new middle-class homes, in the same time period, five years, with $4 billion. I guess I'm a little bit skeptical that will happen, as that's more homes than all the programs under the national housing strategy combined.
I'll start with you, Ms. Bond, and then perhaps go over to you, Ms. Atkey.
Are you as skeptical as I am? If the answer is no, which I expect it will be, is there any advice for the government on how to shape this fund so that it's actually a good program that will achieve the results we're all hoping to see?