Thank you, Mr. Chair.
That's a great question, and I would point the member to our track record with other investments. If you look at the rapid housing initiative, in a very short amount of time we were able to conclude agreements with non-profit organizations as well as municipal governments to deliver housing and to deliver it within 12 months or less—and they all stepped up and did it. We were able to do that because we had binding agreements with them.
In all the different programs of the national housing strategy, we actually sign agreements with proponents to make sure that they keep up their end of the bargain with respect to affordability, accessibility and energy efficiency. This will be exactly the same. The only difference is that we're now investing in systems as opposed to a straightforward project.
On a broad scale, we will require that particular municipality or that particular regional government or whoever is responsible for the permitting and delivery of housing to bring forth a road map or a list of what the challenges are in that particular community to increase housing supply and to do it faster. Once they identify those challenges, they also have to provide us with a road map of how to overcome those challenges and what it would take to overcome those challenges and basically draw a “before and after” picture. For example, you have one permitting official in your city and you give out 100 permits a year. If we provide you with a second permitting official and we pay the salary, we expect at least 200 permits to be issued in that community. Those outcomes will be part of the systems planning we would demand in that agreement, and it will be a binding agreement.