Finance committee  I'll do my best.

Finance committee  I'll be very brief. We will not require a mortgage. To your first question, I agree, that would be an unnecessary hardship, and that condition does not exist. There was some thinking that might be the case. It's not the case. To your second question, yes, of course, we could adm

Finance committee  If I may, I'll answer in reverse order. We publish quarterly our results in terms of construction and units repaired under the national housing strategy, program by program, so that is being done. We've achieved an 18% increase in approval times. Notwithstanding the crisis, we

Finance committee  I do. It's a matter of provincial constitutional jurisdiction. That's basically it. I think many provinces in fact have banned evictions. Some 90% of Canada is subject to eviction bans right now.

Finance committee  That's residential, not businesses.

Finance committee  I don't know.

Finance committee  Unfortunately, I'd be speculating.

Finance committee  We asked them to co-fund it, which you'd have thought would make them complicit, but we haven't seen anything yet.

Finance committee  There will be a generalized decline. As usual, we have different housing markets in Canada. We expect oil-producing regions, unfortunately, to be disproportionately affected because of exogenous, non-COVID factors, including this silly war of oil prices between Russia and the Kin

Finance committee  It will be open on May 25. Right now, you're able to sign up to register for the information to be sent to you already.

Finance committee  Oh, goodness, I don't know that information, how quickly it will take. I would imagine a matter of weeks. I'm looking to see if somebody's giving me the answer here. I should say we've had over 40,000 entities already register on that website for more information.

Finance committee  Well, I think the renter would appeal to the logic of the landlord. Again, we're going to be sharing information on why it would be a poor business decision by landlords not to avail themselves of this program. It will be much more expensive to get rid of that renter. That info

Finance committee  We spent a lot of time looking at who should be included and excluded. I wish I could tell you how much time we spent analyzing all those things, and this is the balance that was struck and the decision that was made by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance. I wanted t

Finance committee  It's the Bank of Canada's own graphs and some work we've done with the help of an outside economic entity, and then just reviewing other projections that have been done by banks, by Dominion Bond Rating Service and others. Is it a forecast or a guess? Don't take this forecast to

Finance committee  That's correct.