Public Accounts Committee on Nov. 29th, 2022

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

What's your point of order?

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

My point of order is that this committee has a particular mandate around reviewing audits. Mr. Fragiskatos is quite liberal with his application of points of order to others—

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

Okay, this is—

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

—and he's going so far outside the committee's mandate—

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

I'd appreciate it—

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

—to grandstand on utter nonsense. It's obviously not true—

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

Mr. Genuis, stand down.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

I'm going to turn it back to Mr. Fragiskatos.

You have a minute and 19 seconds, sir.

[Peter Fragiskatos, Liberal, London North Centre, ON]

The question goes to Ms. Gillis.

Recognizing that the challenge of homelessness is not only a federal responsibility, to what extent is the Department of Infrastructure engaged with provinces and territories to share information and establish even shared outcomes in terms of dealing with this? I think that collaboration is necessary. We've heard about the importance of greater collaboration between CMHC and Infrastructure at the federal level, but what about the engagement with provinces and territories?

[Kelly Gillis]

Thank you for the question.

That's a really important partner in dealing with homelessness across the country.

I mentioned yesterday that Ms. Bowers and I held a federal-provincial-territorial meeting with deputy ministers of housing across the country with full support and agreement for us to work together in creating a working group about how we align better.

When we look at Reaching Home, that particular program is working with community entities that also work with provinces and territories. We have advisory boards where provincial representatives are often on those boards, as well as ourselves, to ensure that we're leveraging all of our programs to make a difference within those communities.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

Thank you very much.

I will quickly thank all the witnesses for coming in today.

I apologize to members for not being there. I prefer to chair these from the committee room, but that was just not possible today.

The meeting is adjourned.