Human Resources committee  I think any reduction in fees and in regulation will translate, but projects take a while to work their way through the system. They're sometimes a year or two in planning, so any changes making it smoother to get approvals will help over time.

Human Resources committee  I couldn't make the direct connection, but when municipalities make it easier for affordable housing to come through the system, it definitely helps with the ease of getting it done and makes it smoother. However, I wouldn't want to speculate on the exact—

Human Resources committee  It would come down to looking at what time frames it currently takes on average, and then comparing it to what....

Human Resources committee  I was just going to say that this is the sort of thing that our folks who are on the ground need to make contact on. Depending on how large he wants to grow his initiative, we've got some small funding available for folks to think through their ideas and help them to get their pr

Human Resources committee  Yes, absolutely, with his ideas, for sure. We would be interested in talking with him.

Human Resources committee  That was part of the investment in affordable housing. Across the country, off-reserve there's $89.9 million available for shelters for victims of family violence, and on-reserve there's another $10.4 million available, so yes, to answer the question, it is available across the c

Human Resources committee  In addition, in Nunavut there was money associated with the funding we have in all three northern territories, so in addition to the Inuit-specific funding, there were investments in affordable housing. Also, we received money with regard to our housing internships initiative fo

Human Resources committee  The expired agreements are in the amount of $30 million. We've gone out to those groups and we've re-established agreements with them that will flow the same amount of funding they were receiving prior to the expiry of their agreement. We're doing that on an ongoing basis, becaus

Human Resources committee  It's an extension for the same amount of the agreement.

Human Resources committee  I think we need to be creative. We do the housing part, and if there's a wraparound service that makes sense, I think we need to look at it. We also have the innovation fund there, so folks with good projects that are unique and the like should come and visit.

Human Resources committee  The vast majority of the funding flows through the provinces and territories, and therefore the majority of the requests for funding come through the provinces and the territories, and they look at the need in the particular community for affordable housing. I would assume that t

Human Resources committee  We have an interest in it, an interest in getting buildings built faster and making sure that they're built efficiently. We're very interested in that, and all orders of government have a role in that. I think municipal governments have a significant interest in it, and they have

Human Resources committee  We do now work with first nations communities to try to come up with a land tenure that is mortgageable. Oftentimes, it's on.... We do work with a variety of first nations. An example is Tsawwassen First Nation, which is trying to do a large development. We work with them so tha

Human Resources committee  We do get reports from provinces and territories, because that's where the majority of our funding flows, so I would have to get the breakdown for that. If we have it, I will provide it to the committee.

Human Resources committee  At CMHC, we function along the spectrum of housing, from affordable through market and home ownership and apartments and the like, so we're there in all of the places with regard to supply. We'd have to look into the question that you asked as well.