Thank you for that question. Through you, Madam Chair, I will comment on the capacity issue, and I will ask the deputy minister to talk more about the Emerson report.
We have heard from our territorial partners and had conversations with some of my colleagues from northern communities. Again, this ties into the existing building Canada fund. We are looking at some options for how we work the small communities component and the provincial-territorial component. We can possibly combine them.
Every community in the north is a small community. Having a provincial program that has a different set of requirements and having a small communities program that has a different set of requirements doesn't make sense. We are looking at this, and we are having some conversations with them about how we can actually improve that and maybe bring two programs together.
Another thing that we have for the north is a federal contribution of almost 75% for all projects, and the territories contribute 25%. Another relates to the design capacity of northern communities. We can do some of the planning work that is sometimes difficult for them to do.
We're listening to them and we're working with them to have that flexibility that I talked about earlier. I want to repeat that the cookie-cutter approach is not something that is helping diverse communities.