Human Resources committee  Okay. Thank you very much.

Human Resources committee  There are committees at assistant deputy minister level, my level, that is. My counterparts and I meet to discuss policies, but also to discuss data, programs and how they are implemented. Discussions also take place at deputy ministerial level and also among ministers.

Human Resources committee  I can talk a little about our process in terms of Phase 2 of the infrastructure plan. Minister Sohi took part in his first meeting with his provincial and territorial counterparts. The deputy ministers met as well. The discussions focused on program data, results and objectives.

Human Resources committee  Yes, exactly.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. When you say community considerations, I imagine you are referring to community needs.

Human Resources committee  We work very closely with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which is one of the major stakeholders in that respect. We are in constant discussions with the people from the federation in order to find out the needs of the communities. FCM members include large cities as

Human Resources committee  I can only speak to those investments that we've announced in budget 2016, which were quite substantive. If there are questions around mortgages or any other support for housing on reserve, I would defer to either my colleague or representatives from the Canada Mortgage and Housi

Human Resources committee  With respect to the Department of Infrastructure, we're a coordinator more than anything else. The funding that is received for housing and indigenous communities would normally go to the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs and/or to ESDC, whose minister is Minister Duc

Human Resources committee  Thank you. As I said, there are administrative agreements in place with the provinces and territories with the federal government. There are reporting mechanisms in place. They have to report at least on an annual level, if not more, in terms of how the money is being used and w

Human Resources committee  I think it's a bit early to tell. In terms of the bank, there's still a lot of policy work that needs to be done: what the operations of the bank are, what kind of risk framework it's actually going to use, how it's going to select projects, what the risk exposure would be to not

Human Resources committee  Sorry, can you elaborate a bit more or...?

Human Resources committee  Normally it's a third, a third, a third. Under budget 2016, we went up to 50% cost sharing: 50% being provided by the federal government for public transit, and our investment in water and waste water as well. As for what the cost sharing will look like for phase two of the plan,

Human Resources committee  Yes, or actually by the federal government's providing a higher costing share, and then it's really up to municipalities, working with provinces and territories, as to how the rest of that cost sharing is sorted out.

Human Resources committee  Going back to my earlier remarks, we're providing quite a bit of funding for indigenous communities, $3.5 billion. A lot of that will be invested in core municipal infrastructure—water and wastewater systems, solid waste management, getting rid of your garbage—as well as health f

Human Resources committee  We work as closely as possible with the provinces and territories. It is they who determine the priorities. We have a process within the department to check whether the projects are balanced, but, as I also pointed out, we have some programs designed to respond to the needs of sm