Finance committee  I'll stop short of that, but I will note that in the adjustments that happen between programs and even sometimes within program volets, like components of programs, we're often involved in supporting the minister to get authorities to make those kinds of adjustments. Generally,

Finance committee  I think that housing at Infrastructure Canada, CMHC and we, to a degree, would certainly monitor with interest some of the developments on the provincial front, but we don't have a specific reporting duty associated with that. I'll note that the housing accelerator fund is obvio

Finance committee  These are existing programs that have been providing support for affordable housing and housing in general for a few years now. We have top-ups to both programs. We have a $15 billion top-up to the apartment construction loan program. That should allow an additional 30,000 units,

Finance committee  I'll just note that there are a range of programs withing the national housing strategy. Obviously some of them provide.... There are apartment construction loans, which are in the range of $20,000 per unit. In some of the programs for more deeply affordable housing, that support

Finance committee  I would say that these programs generally are run out of CMHC or housing in Infrastructure Canada. They have been given, I know, flexibility in the management of these programs to provide additional support for some of the more vulnerable projects. As we understand it, they are m

Finance committee  It's Alison McDermott from the Department of Finance. I'll just add that there is a fair bit of built-in flexibility in a lot of those CMHC programs that would allow them to take small measures to improve the viability of individual projects, so I don't think there's a very larg

Finance committee  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear before you today. The introductions have already been made, so I'll begin with my remarks. We are pleased to be here to discuss with you the issue of rising housing costs and public policy measures to address this issue. Housin

Finance committee  In fact, for the $2 billion that will be granted this year, there are no conditions. However, to participate in the five per cent guarantee, we want to have a commitment from the provinces about data collection. This is mainly a matter of getting the provinces' cooperation in th

Finance committee  Yes. In fact, most of these conditions relate to the other parts of the agreement. So the conditions concerning the Canada Health Transfer are minimal and are related to this cooperation on data collection.

Finance committee  I won't go through all of them. I'm assuming you have some information in front of you about what the major changes are. I'll go through some of the major transfers to other levels of government that are probably most relevant to the increase, which is what you asked about. Ther

Finance committee  Could I just add one caveat to your statement about health care? As a result of the stronger economic growth that we've seen coming out of the pandemic, and as a result of the government's actions, GDP growth is much higher than it was in the prepandemic state. The amount of CHT

Finance committee  I'm happy to take that question. Your question was about how the original payment authority, which was included in Bill C-17, was essentially—I think to answer that in simple terms—just merged into this new bill so that when this bill receives royal assent, the government will

Finance committee  To give you a sense of what was actually asked of provinces, there were exchanges of letters with provincial governments, and conversations. Basically, the federal government asked them to commit to taking further action on housing, working with their municipalities. We have lett