Finance committee  Definitely. The homelessness partnering strategy funds that have been distributed across Canada have made a huge difference, absolutely. Most of those dollars are going to what we visualize as the far left end of the spectrum, where people are coming right off the streets. People

Finance committee  Absolutely. I apologize for not having that ready and translated in time. It has definitely been worked up. The best and most recent representation would be through the C.D. Howe Institute, and I'd be happy to provide that document. It's a step-by-step process based on the U.S. s

Finance committee  The first-year expenditure of $50 million would be relatively low as we try to get investors interested and involved. As the program grows and people understand its validity and profitability more, people would sign on, so there would be more tax breaks given out, basically, over

Finance committee  No, it would definitely be a limited tax incentive with a ceiling in place, as it is in the U.S. model. The key piece that would make it successful in Canada is the provincial flexibility. While the federal government would provide that tax incentive, the provinces would have a

Finance committee  The main thing is starting up and getting people interested in purchasing it as an investment. There would be some real legwork on the part of the syndicators, most likely in getting people to buy in and purchase the credits. As long as that PR campaign is in place, I don't see a

Finance committee  Hello. Thank for having me here today. My name's Tangie Genshorek. I'm the coordinator of the Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan. Like a lot of homelessness action plans across the country, our goal is to end homelessness. In order to do that, we need a lot of different answers