Human Resources committee  Then we start again.

Human Resources committee  I wouldn't say it's the primary role, but it certainly is the biggest commercial aspect of what we do. As I described, we touch all areas of the housing continuum. The two biggest areas are assisted housing and the many billions of dollars that are spent in that area. The second

Human Resources committee  Thank you. With respect to the first point, no, there's no ability to use funds from mortgage insurance for social housing programs. There are two very clear mandates. Those two areas don't get mixed. For assisted or social housing we receive appropriations from government and a

Human Resources committee  Unchanged. It's exactly the same.

Human Resources committee  As they come.

Human Resources committee  And qualify, of course.

Human Resources committee  No, each province will do something a little different. For instance, taking the case of Newfoundland perhaps as an example, they'll do a proposal call once a year. In other jurisdictions, they may do proposal calls two or three times a year. We just found it easier to do continu

Human Resources committee  Again, in our case, because it's continuous—

Human Resources committee  We have carryover, yes.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. There was a fair amount in that question. Yes, we absolutely do. We actually have a collection on our website of what we would call best practices or approaches that are being used by jurisdictions, be they provinces, municipalities, or communities across the country.

Human Resources committee  Under this new framework I talked about, which was announced in July of this year, in fact the existing levels of funding for both the affordable housing program and the RRAP program for each jurisdiction have been rolled into one pool of money. So the amounts of funding have not

Human Resources committee  It is $1.7 billion per annum.

Human Resources committee  Yes, it still exists. To be clear, we don't do testing of materials. That is not our role. That would be the National Research Council, and it always has been. But what we do through our research is try to provide the industry—builders and developers—with state-of-the-art best

Human Resources committee  It's approximately $33 million a year.

Human Resources committee  I am just going to double-check that as we speak.