Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to acknowledge that of the $1.36 billion, $708 million—and we can account for every dime of it—has gone to emergency measures during COVID for doing things I mentioned in my speech, such as PPE, vaccination clinics and shelters, handwashing facilities, and temporary measures for social distancing so people could have a safe place to sleep.

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. Thank you very much for the question. At Infrastructure Canada, we lead the program Reaching Home. Reaching Home is a transformational program that involves understanding, within the communities, by name, who is homeless and what their needs are. Being able to service those needs requires you to work with all orders of government: the communities at hand and the support levers within that particular community; the provincial or territorial supports that are within that community; and what we, CMHC and other government departments are doing.

Public Accounts committee  Perhaps I will start. In budgets 2021 and 2022, the government committed to developing a veterans program, which will soon be launched. I mentioned that in my opening remarks. That is something we are looking at and developing, specifically with Veterans Affairs Canada and the veteran-servicing community across Canada, to be able to tailor the program to the specific needs of those who have served our country.

Public Accounts committee  I thank the Office of the Auditor General for the performance audit of chronic homelessness in Canada. The report makes several important observations about our response to chronic homelessness, and we accept the recommendations. Homelessness is a significant and complex challenge in Canada, and to address it we need better data and more coordination.

Public Accounts committee  It can vary. It's normally within months within a fiscal year, but following a budget, there is generally a memorandum to cabinet process. There is the Treasury Board submission process. There's a program design and launch process, and then, depending on the type of infrastructure program you are managing, there's how much time it will take proponents to apply and go through the due diligence for approval.

Public Accounts committee  If it's the COVID stream, it's 20 working days. If it's not the COVID stream, it's 60 working days, but that's based on complete applications.

Public Accounts committee  None. I want to put a caveat to the last one, if there's a Treasury Board submission and it has to go to Treasury Board, it would take longer than the 60 days. None, we do not fund ineligible projects.

Public Accounts committee  For those particular programs that they have advanced and are complete, they do not have any new applications that are coming through them, so those projects are advancing and concluding.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. On our funding table, you will see each legacy program that is part of the investing in Canada plan, and you can see on there the amount of money that's been committed, how many projects, as well as the reimbursements. As well, on our horizontal table, there are links to the detailed information within those particular programs that would provide results information.

Public Accounts committee  I think the importance of governance, of coordination and of data integrity in sharing data from different systems are all important lessons learned, and they are certainly being shared with my colleagues for other such initiatives. We have the Treasury Board Secretariat here as well as the Privy Council Office that we work very closely with on these types of horizontal initiatives.

Public Accounts committee  For infrastructure programming, as I mentioned a little bit in a previous question, first of all, you have to get the authority and you have to launch a program. I'll give the example of ours with our investing in Canada infrastructure program working with provinces and territories.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. If we look at the table that I talked about regarding the flow of funds, you see that in this particular year that we're in, 2022-23, the planned spending is $18 billion. If we use StatsCan's seven jobs for every million dollars spent, that would create 120,000 jobs.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. We and the partner departments have worked quite diligently since the Auditor General's report to improve our protocols, data sharing and consistency of information, so it enables us to report more efficiently and more effectively. I can give you a great example of that.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. I can follow up on the example that I was giving to answer this particular question. We have improved the consistency and the way that we work within the 21 departments. We have a funding table that is available online. It was available online prior to the report as well.

Public Accounts committee  If I look back to last year, as I mentioned, on the flow of funds table, we've reimbursed $20 billion—