Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm going to follow up and I'm going to throw my accountant's hat back on for a little while. This is kind of fun. I don't get to do this very often at INAN.
I'm going to go back to this projects thing, because I think we need to drill into that a bit further. In the report on page 9, it talks about April 2022. There was a $291-million funding gap. Ms. Gideon just talked about that number now being identified as $358 million. I think I'm comparing the numbers correctly.
According to Public Safety Canada in their 2019 “Emergency Management Strategy for Canada”, for every $1 invested in preparedness and mitigation, $6 could be saved in emergency response and recovery. I'll do some simple math on the back of a napkin. If we invested in these 112 projects, or whatever that number is up to in projects now, since April 2022, that would create $2.148 billion that would be available to invest in other areas. That could go to housing. That could go to schools. That could go to mental health. It seems like a pretty good return on investment to me.
Does that make sense? Let's get up front and get ahead of this, and keep $2 billion in the coffers to invest in other things. Does that make sense to you?