Public Accounts committee  I think it's difficult. There are always communities that don't want to respond to surveys. That's the case anywhere. You might receive a request for a survey in your inbox; some you'll respond to, and some you'll choose not to. I think it highlights the lack of capacity to perh

Public Accounts committee  I believe you're highlighting part of my concern that I mentioned in my opening remarks about the partial agreement with one of our recommendations. As I reflected on this work and on the work of my predecessors, there has very little progress over 20 years in this area. That is

Public Accounts committee  That's a difficult question to answer.

Public Accounts committee  There are so many individual programs that are not doing well—

Public Accounts committee  —and then there are so many that are doing well, so it's a tough question to answer.

Public Accounts committee  I stand by our comments in our report. I believe it's unlikely that the gap will be closed by 2030 unless something drastically different is done. We have almost seven years to go. Something different really needs to happen. It starts with understanding the gap and then having a

Public Accounts committee  It's all of the above. A fundamental shift means thinking about things in a different way. In my view, if we continue to say that we have a number of housing programs for these individuals over here, and we have a number of safe drinking water programs for those people over the

Public Accounts committee  Are you talking about closing the gap?

Public Accounts committee  The funding that has been spent has definitely contributed to building new homes. We have an exhibit that talks about the achievement of that. We highlight that, in the report when they were looking at the gap, it was about 55,000 homes, I believe, that needed to be built. Here w

Public Accounts committee  We included the table you referenced in the report to illustrate our conclusion, which was that the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation did not use updated census information. It did not take into account demographic changes happening all over the country over a period of abo

Public Accounts committee  Our understanding when we were doing the audit was that no one could explain to us why the mould strategy wasn't being used anymore and that access to funding to deal with mould was part of a bigger, broader repairs program that exists there. This is an issue that my office rais

Public Accounts committee  I will answer your question in two parts. First, when we spoke with Indigenous communities during our audit, they very clearly told us that the commitment was improving, but there wasn’t really any negotiation. They sometimes felt that the government came to the table with a fir

Public Accounts committee  I will ask Glenn to jump in for sure. What we did was look at the communities that had 100 housing units or less, and when there were 75% or more homes in the community that they had self-assessed as in need of major repair, we put them in the poorest bucket. In the others, les

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for giving us the opportunity to discuss our report, “Housing in First Nations Communities,” tabled in Parliament on March 19, 2024. I want to begin by acknowledging that we are gathered on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe peopl

Public Accounts committee  There are a few contributing factors to the number of reports being released today. As you know, in February, my office released a report on ArriveCAN, and we have three more reports coming in May. We've spread out some of our reports that are typically all tabled in March in or