Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to concentrate on the how as opposed to the what, and I'm concentrating my questions to Mr. Ness.
Mr. Ness, I really appreciated your opening comments and in particular how strategically you were and are thinking.
I'm going to concentrate on your vision and how you envision a whole-of-government approach at and within the federal level of government, combining all the departments that are involved in a lot of the programs that would attach to climate resiliency infrastructure. It would include all levels of government as well, with municipal, regional, county, provincial or territorial levels working together toward integrating capital planning to ensure that strategic investments work first toward infrastructure resiliency.
There are two points I'd like you to comment on. One is planning and strengthening sustainable funding envelopes available from all levels of government to leverage and partner capital programs that are available at those levels of government. The second is to promote a disciplined approach to land use planning—you spoke a bit on that—with strategic capital investments as well as asset management plans that are sustainable well into the future through those very funding envelopes that I spoke about earlier.
Mr. Ness, can you comment on that, please?