Public Accounts committee  I thank the Office of the Auditor General for the performance audit of chronic homelessness in Canada. The report makes several important observations about our response to chronic homelessness, and we accept the recommendations. Homelessness is a significant and complex challen

Public Accounts committee  It can vary. It's normally within months within a fiscal year, but following a budget, there is generally a memorandum to cabinet process. There is the Treasury Board submission process. There's a program design and launch process, and then, depending on the type of infrastructur

Public Accounts committee  If it's the COVID stream, it's 20 working days. If it's not the COVID stream, it's 60 working days, but that's based on complete applications.

Public Accounts committee  None. I want to put a caveat to the last one, if there's a Treasury Board submission and it has to go to Treasury Board, it would take longer than the 60 days. None, we do not fund ineligible projects.

Public Accounts committee  For those particular programs that they have advanced and are complete, they do not have any new applications that are coming through them, so those projects are advancing and concluding.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. On our funding table, you will see each legacy program that is part of the investing in Canada plan, and you can see on there the amount of money that's been committed, how many projects, as well as the reimbursements. As well, on our horizontal table, there are links to th

Public Accounts committee  I think the importance of governance, of coordination and of data integrity in sharing data from different systems are all important lessons learned, and they are certainly being shared with my colleagues for other such initiatives. We have the Treasury Board Secretariat here as

Public Accounts committee  For infrastructure programming, as I mentioned a little bit in a previous question, first of all, you have to get the authority and you have to launch a program. I'll give the example of ours with our investing in Canada infrastructure program working with provinces and territori

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. We and the partner departments have worked quite diligently since the Auditor General's report to improve our protocols, data sharing and consistency of information, so it enables us to report more efficiently and more effectively. I can give you a g

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. I can follow up on the example that I was giving to answer this particular question. We have improved the consistency and the way that we work within the 21 departments. We have a funding table that is available online. It was available online prior

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. If we look at the table that I talked about regarding the flow of funds, you see that in this particular year that we're in, 2022-23, the planned spending is $18 billion. If we use StatsCan's seven jobs for every million dollars spent, that wo

Public Accounts committee  If I look back to last year, as I mentioned, on the flow of funds table, we've reimbursed $20 billion—

Public Accounts committee  —so that would be more than 120,000 jobs. Yes, if I look at last year, the numbers also support that job creation number.

Public Accounts committee  Certainly, over time, there have been delays, as Ms. Bowers has mentioned, in supply chains, and we are in discussion with jurisdictions on what that means in certain cases. That's one of the reasons why the investing in Canada infrastructure program—not the plan but the $33-bill

Public Accounts committee  An audit like this is very important to help us understand where we need to improve on Infrastructure Canada and the investing in Canada plan. We had a lot of information on our website about the plan, but there's always room for improvement. Among the more specific things, the