Human Resources committee  Perhaps I can help to provide some clarity—

Human Resources committee  Since that particular announcement was made, I have talked with stakeholders, including the Ontario Home Builders Association, whom I met with recently, and they have said it has changed the equation in making the math work. We do anticipate a number of developments that didn't p

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. When we look at all of Infrastructure Canada's future programming, since the change in bringing homelessness and CMHC within the portfolio—and this was announced in both budget 2022 and budget 2023—our permanent public transit program, which

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. We look at homelessness, as Infrastructure Canada has been responsible for the policy and the program Reaching Home since they came over in November 2021. We have been very active in looking at different opportunities. One of them is looking at and

Human Resources committee  No, we do not know how many empty homes there are in Canada. Through Reaching Home, we work very closely with the non-profit sector as well as municipalities in supporting their priorities. Through a community advisory board, they look at what's happening within their community a

Human Resources committee  I'll defer to Ms. Bowers on that one.

Human Resources committee  I just have some brief comments, Mr. Chair.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for welcoming me here today. I'd like begin by acknowledging that we are here on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. Infrastructure Canada began supporting the Government of Canada's housing and homelessness agenda in Nov

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the question. When we look at the targets for homelessness, one main factor is working with our community entities across the country. We have 60 community entities, plus a number of community entities in Quebec, and we are working with the territories.

Public Accounts committee  Again, when this particular audit was done, the transition from CMHC coming in and working with Infrastructure Canada...and the homelessness policy and programs had just moved into Infrastructure Canada. That has been clarified. Under the minister's direction, Infrastructure Cana

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. The time of the audit was during the COVID period. The non-profit organizations in the homeless-serving sector were dedicated to saving the lives and protecting the health of the clients they were serving and could not provide the data at that time.

Public Accounts committee  That particular platform was put in place in the fall of last year. That is the system that community entities can use in a very efficient way to give us results in a timely way. That's how we collected the data on the 5,000 projects. That is now a way that community entities can

Public Accounts committee  To go to the question on how we support the homeless community better, the Reaching Home program is a transformational program. The government provides funding to communities to work—

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. Just to bring in some context, the Auditor General did this particular audit during the time of COVID. At that particular time, we had asked community entities, because they had asked during the emergency situation, not to report on data. Since then, the community en

Public Accounts committee  Pardon me?