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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
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee Thank you for the question, Chair. We have an assistant deputy minister coordinating committee that has been in place—it meets biweekly—as well as working-level meetings among ourselves to make sure that we're coordinating our programs. Going beyond CMHC and us, CMHC and I met
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chair, I want to thank the member for his question. We are working with Quebec, which determines the amount of the funding granted that is allocated to the community. We are also working with the province on the Reaching Home program. That program needs more money in order
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee During the pandemic, we extended the deadline for reports and outputs. We have now started to receive reports from everywhere in Canada. We are working with Quebec to get the outputs.
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Chair, for the question. We have submitted an action plan to address the findings of the Auditor General, which we think are extremely important.
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee As I said, we agree with the Auditor General's recommendations and we are actioning them.
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee For senior public servants in the core public service, the Treasury Board Secretariat has a policy that all departments follow in how they approach performance management.
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee There are different committees at Infrastructure Canada. In the end, the application of individual performance bonuses to individuals would be by the deputy minister, but it is within Treasury Board guidance and guidelines.
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee I will answer that question. During that period of time—during the COVID experience—the shelter capacity was reduced by about 30%, so there weren't as many shelter spaces for people to use. That said, temporary measures were put in place. We had 137,000 people avail themselves o
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. We work with community entities and shelters across the country, which provide us with shelter data. We have just received some. The Auditor General rightfully pointed out that, in 2019, we did not get that data. That was because of COVID.
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee As part of our action plan, we are looking at a more efficient way to capture the data. Right now it comes in different formats from communities and shelters across the country. To do it in a more efficient way, we've actually hired a consultant to look at how we automate it. We
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee Thank you for the question. That's a really important partner in dealing with homelessness across the country. I mentioned yesterday that Ms. Bowers and I held a federal-provincial-territorial meeting with deputy ministers of housing across the country with full support and agr
November 29th, 2022Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
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
May 18th, 2023Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee Pardon me?
May 18th, 2023Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis
Public Accounts committee We've done point-in-time counts in 55 communities, working with our community entities, and overall within the country homelessness has increased. What we've published recently is 12%. We do know that, and that's not unusual coming out of a time of crisis.
May 18th, 2023Committee meeting
Kelly Gillis