Certainly.
The build communities strong fund is not expressly included in this BIA package and the budget implementation act before us right now. That will be coming, as it's been in the budget through the budget process. With the blessing of Parliament, $51 billion is going to be available for communities to invest in housing-enabling infrastructure. Water, drinking water, waste water, stormwater systems, public transit, health and education infrastructure are included in this fund. We expect to see really strong uptake from communities across the country in seeking funding to enable them to scale, to grow their communities and to build more housing. That will be coming before us soon.
The infrastructure component here in this consideration is with the Infrastructure Bank. It is a component of the investment that they will make. If they're increasing it from $35 billion to $45 billion, there's a lot of housing-enabling infrastructure that they will invest in—again, water systems and waste-water treatment plants. There are lots of investments happening across the country at a community scale through the Infrastructure Bank, and importantly, they are attracting private investment as part of the condition of that investment. Those investments attract private investments and leverage the public capital that is going into community infrastructure.
