I'm delighted to be here.
I want to thank the intervenors for coming today and answering our questions and doing a terrific job of really trying to wrestle with a very complex issue.
From the questions from the members opposite and all the members of the committee, I think we all have a strong desire to do more. There's no question of the objectives. It's really a question around the implementation and the tactical aspects of who's responsible for doing what.
I think there were a few very good questions related to the governance around tripartite agreements and really defining who has that local delivery capability in particular.
I appreciated the comments by the Auditor General about the fact that sometimes on small first nations it is actually a very complex thing to deliver a local delivery capacity. In a small first nation of 400 people, you can't have an expectation that there's a critical mass where you can have that local delivery capability.
I want to talk to you about housing in particular, because that's such an important issue. It's one of those areas, if you look at our three levels of government in this country, where all three levels do actually play a big role. In my own city of Toronto, in my riding of Etobicoke—Lakeshore, for example, we've got some federally managed housing projects, some municipally managed ones, and some provincial. That's not as clearly defined as with health and education, for example, where it typically resides within the province.
Can you talk about some of the challenges around tripartite agreements when it comes to housing? If you think of the life cycle of housing programs, where does it make sense for that local delivery capability to really take root and ensure that over the lifespan of these programs you can really manage these things for the longer term?