Okay. I'm looking forward to that.
I'm glad the chair started this out with a discussion of the frustration that a lot of Canadians have had in trying to deal with this program. I read what you were going to say before the plan changed. I'm pleased to read that you have simplified the processes, because I'm sure that, as you can imagine, there are a lot of examples of that, particularly of community organizations that have just given up.
I can give you a couple of examples in my riding. Community Living South Muskoka had the land ready to go. It was zoned, the municipalities were all ready and everything was ready to go. They went through a couple of years with that process and then, when they got to CMHC, they gave up. They sold the land. That was pretty tragic.
The minister was just in Sault Ste. Marie announcing funding for a really cool project that I think we should be doing literally across this country: the redevelopment of a Legion. Legions are facing their age as structures, and their organizations are changing, and these are great opportunities.
A former Liberal member of Parliament, Dennis Mills, has a project in Bala, Ontario, at the Legion property, a great huge chunk of land. The municipality has everything zoned and ready to go. He's not giving up, because he's like a dog with a bone. He will not give up, but he has given up on CMHC and this government for sure. He just doesn't get it. He doesn't understand why it's so difficult.
I recognize, of course, that you have to be careful with taxpayers' money. I started to look through just the national housing co-investment fund. I started to go through the checklists. Of course, there's the integrity declaration, the purpose of the funding, and if you're eligible, you have to go through that checklist. Then, of course, there's a lovely spreadsheet, where you see if it's feasible or not, and then there are the minimum environmental and accessibility instructions that seem to go above and beyond building codes.
I went to visit Covenant House in Vancouver. It's an amazing story and a fabulous facility that they have there. They built this new structure. I asked them, “Did you get any funding from CMHC?” They said, “Yes, we got $12 million.” Isn't that incredible? Now, it's a $100-million project, but that's great: They got $12 million. It cost them a million dollars in consulting fees to work through the quagmire that is the process known as “the CMHC”. Community Living South Muskoka didn't have that kind of money to work through the quagmire, so they gave up and sold the land.
I want to know if you can tell us what you've done to simplify the process so that organizations that don't have Ryan Reynolds sponsoring them and raising awareness about the importance of the organization, or the resources to spend that kind of money on consulting fees and lobbyists.... What have you done to make it easier for those community organizations that are literally on the front lines of this issue and want to make the change that every community in our country needs?