Status of Women committee  I'll start with the universal design. It's a good idea. It works. Those who are building new have the opportunity to build for the future. One of the objectives of the national housing strategy is to create a new generation of housing for Canadians, as our forefathers and foremot

Status of Women committee  I saw you.... I'm afraid.

Status of Women committee  So, we have it and we're asking the questions, and we're also asking the users what that means, whether it's garden space or whatever.

Status of Women committee  As I said, we're doing the design work right now. We're making sure it aligns well with what's out there now, and what provinces and cities have. Depending on where you are in the country, there are different pieces. We want it to be additive, so that it is helpful, as opposed

Status of Women committee  I'll refer to the statement the gentleman made, that it takes seven years. It takes time to build these projects. Groups need to get back up to speed; they haven't been building for a number of years. There is capacity. As I said, we have programs to help with that—just repurposi

Status of Women committee  We work with our municipal partners, as I said, to try to speed up the process, because time is money, for sure. We work with them on the affordability side, and what they can bring to the table for the national housing strategy. For the overall tax policy, I'd have to defer to m

Status of Women committee  I don't understand the question. I understand what the statements—

Status of Women committee  I don't have a view on portable subsidies, but I do have a view on the Canada housing benefit, which will be implemented in 2020. We're currently working with our provincial and territorial partners to implement it. This will provide $2,500 on an annual basis to up to 300,000 rec

Status of Women committee  Of course, we have folks, and with our workforce we try to reflect the communities in which we're working. Our folks are out there in the community, promoting, working with partners and working with groups. We know many of the groups across the country. If there is a language iss

Status of Women committee  In the housing area, in terms of our programs, and particularly our insurance products, we have some sophisticated modelling that helps us identify fraud. If it's somebody who came through for a mortgage loan or a mortgage product, we have some very sophisticated algorithms and m

Status of Women committee  We are. The new housing that's being built, we're renovating it so...if it's renovation. Now, there are urgent situations when somebody comes in and we look at it as an urgency. But if there's time, we're strongly encouraging people to make at least 20% of the units and the commo

Status of Women committee  We're truly accessible, trying to get 20% of the units accessible. It's more difficult in the renovation of a 1970s building. We work with groups that have multiple buildings in the same town and the same community, and they say, “We can make this one 80% accessible. For this one

Status of Women committee  It means that 20% of the housing that's available is accessible, according to the Canadian standard.

Status of Women committee  Yes. We have a standard.

Status of Women committee  No.