Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair. With Quebec, we work directly with the province, and the province works with community entities. We have just reached an agreement with Quebec to implement coordinated access. We have seven community entities within that particula

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. What I can say is that during the audit period we were in during the COVID time, for community entities, we gave them a delay and an extension to report the results of their spending. What I can tell you now is that with the money that was spe

Public Accounts committee  During the audit period, during the COVID period of time, we gave an extension for the reporting of the results. Since that time, we do have the reporting of the results for the first two years of the program, which have made measurable impacts in placing 32,000 people in stable

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. What we are seeing, as of right now, November 25, is that about half the community entities we fund—approximately 60 of them, across the country—have implemented the program. It's what we call “coordinated access”. This is an international best practice—an informatio

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for the question. Outside Quebec, there are 27 community entities that have to implement coordinated access. By the end of December this year, we will have a detailed plan to help the community entities implement that particular new transformation

Public Accounts committee  Is this better?

Public Accounts committee  Thank you.

Public Accounts committee  This is a nine-year program. Originally it was set at $2.1 billion. It was topped up during COVID to deal with the pandemic and that crisis. The government since, in budget 2022, has continued to increase its support for the homeless community at that doubling level until the end

Public Accounts committee  That's correct. It was transferred to us in the fall of 2021.

Public Accounts committee  It was ESDC.

Public Accounts committee  I will begin and then see if Mr. Tremblay or Nisa Tummon would like to add anything. During the COVID period of time, it was less than one year that the new Reaching Home program had been launched, and it was a transformational program. The homeless-serving sector did need to tr

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. As Ms. Bowers said, we work in collaboration on that particular target. Infrastructure Canada is responsible for leading on the program Reaching Home, which is a really important program. It is outcomes-based and we're working with communities to have the data that

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to acknowledge that of the $1.36 billion, $708 million—and we can account for every dime of it—has gone to emergency measures during COVID for doing things I mentioned in my speech, such as PPE, vaccination clinics and shelters, handwashing fac

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. Thank you very much for the question. At Infrastructure Canada, we lead the program Reaching Home. Reaching Home is a transformational program that involves understanding, within the communities, by name, who is homeless and what their needs are. Being able to service

Public Accounts committee  Perhaps I will start. In budgets 2021 and 2022, the government committed to developing a veterans program, which will soon be launched. I mentioned that in my opening remarks. That is something we are looking at and developing, specifically with Veterans Affairs Canada and the v