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Environment committee  As my colleague mentioned earlier, those are the findings of the report of the CESD last year. The program does have various objectives. The main objective is to provide the predictable funding to municipalities to invest in community infrastructure and to support and encourage l

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  Part of the issue is more around how we report out on the outcomes themselves. What we generally get from the municipalities in terms of information that comes through the provinces in their annual reports is very much around the infrastructure that was built, how much money was

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  It is a very complex and difficult thing to measure. One area that we are looking at, as we establish our new programs, is getting a solid baseline on where communities may be at now. I can take as an example the innovation and climate program of the Federation of Canadian Munici

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  It would apply to the municipalities that actually apply to the program itself.

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  They would need to do a self-assessment on where they're at now, and then, with the support of the FCM staff and resources, we'd be able to build on that.

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  That's very much the approach we're looking to take, going forward. Some municipalities will be assessed at a much stronger level because they have their basic plans in place. It's more a matter of getting a more cohesive approach to the life-cycle management of their assets. The

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  I can go ahead. Thank you for your question and your comments. The gas tax fund, at its core, is a transfer payment. We deliver the transfer payment through provinces and territories, and then it's delivered to municipalities—

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  â€”so every municipality in Canada receives their share of the fund. They can use 100% of that funding to fund the projects that they want to bring forward as long as they meet some of the eligibility criteria, but it is very much focused on the municipal or community priorities to

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  They are different, and also, they were announced at different times. The funds that will be delivered through the FCM are two capacity-building programs. Also, we will fund some small pilot and development projects under the municipal climate innovation fund. For the most part,

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  I can't speak to the other two programs. They're funded through different departments.

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  Do you want to go ahead...?

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. The municipal asset management program that will be delivered by the FCM is really geared toward supporting the smaller rural communities, because we have realized that there is a gap in their abilities and their capacity, really, for infrastructure

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Environment committee  Thank you for having us here to speak before you. I am joined today by Robert Judge, director of sectoral policy at Infrastructure Canada, and Bogdan Makuc, director of program integration. We're here today to speak to you about Infrastructure Canada's progress in addressing t

June 19th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Transport committee  Not to our knowledge. The project priorities are set by the provinces. So we do not always see all the projects that are approved by the municipalities, but the entire list of projects submitted by the provinces, specifically in relation to the new clean water and wastewater pro

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo

Transport committee  For infrastructure in general, the need is greater than the funding available. For example, although $180 billion has been proposed for the next few years, we already see an overall gap of more than $500 billion in infrastructure. I'm not just talking about water projects, but a

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Laura Di Paolo