The heart of your question is, as I mentioned earlier, the key importance of collaboration between different jurisdictions in having common housing goals. We have been successful as a department in developing agreements with provincial governments and, in many cases, municipalities across the country. We do have experience working with different levels of government.
With Build Canada Homes, the intention is for it to function more as an investment bank and less as an organization that has allocations of resources for different jurisdictions. I can tell you that the minister hosted an FPT meeting about two weeks ago in Vancouver, and there was a lot of support for a collaborative approach between provincial and federal governments, in terms of supporting housing projects. The focus will be around a portfolio of projects.
To your earlier point, it will assist rural areas, because one of the challenges they often have is that the local capacity to support NGOs and municipalities to move their projects forward is often not as high, so the aggregation we're looking for with provinces will be a key way of both unlocking intergovernmental support and actually reaching rural areas a lot more successfully than perhaps we have under past programming.