Thank you very much, Mr. Lemire. That's a great question.
We have a new program to improve the capacity of first nations.
It's called the housing management subsidy. It was announced in budget 2022, and it includes $157 million to support the training of the kinds of experts that you're talking about—housing managers on reserve—who can help with the very issue of protecting the property, making sure the property is maintained and making sure that those assessments are up to date to address some of the issues you've identified, like insurance.
We also received $66 million over three years to devote to training and certification, and the provisions of technical services for those first nations housing managers.
I will also say that you mentioned using a partnership between government and private capital to accelerate building houses. Let me give you an example of some work that CMHC did that was announced on April 18, 2023. CMHC partnered with the indigenous-owned private credit fund, Keewaywin Capital Inc., on a pilot project to build over 330 homes financed by private capital. This demonstrates how private credit can work as a viable low-risk way to augment the investments that the federal government is making.
I think you're on the right track with the questions you're asking. That's exactly the direction that this government wants to go...those tools of self-determination, including the skills, the knowledge and the partnerships that often can be formed once that capacity continues to grow.