Tom Osborne

I know that we just announced funding for a facility for sewage treatment in St. John's, for example. One of the bottlenecks for large-scale development in that region was the capacity to treat water to standard. Can you talk about how Build Canada Homes will invest in infrastructure for municipalities? How will that help with future growth? Some municipalities or regions may need infrastructure [more]

Madam Chair, I have commitments as well. Can we pick this up at the next one?

I want to talk about a couple of different directions. One of them is that there are many different types of housing needs. There's mixed income and middle income. Hopefully, middle income won't be left out of the mix, because I know there's a challenge for middle-income families as well. There's also student housing, senior housing and transitional housing. How does Build Canada Homes plan to [more]

In terms of provinces and municipalities, can you talk about what MOUs you may have entered into at this stage and what that means for construction timelines and the number of units?

Thank you. I want to get back to Build Canada Homes for a moment. I understand that the concept of Build Canada Homes is to reduce duplication and to become a one-stop shop, connecting all levels of government, including indigenous governments; community organizations; developers; and non-profits, for example. Can you explain how that works? Is there a registry? How does it reduce red tape? How [more]

Thank you. To respond to Mr. Lemire, and with great respect to your motion, we have seen a lot of investment—a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of witnesses and a lot of meetings. The numbers that I put forward were on ArriveCAN alone, the 24 meetings and 90 witnesses at this committee and similarly with OGGO. Are we chasing good money after bad? I'm not arguing your motion. If IT needs to be [more]

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm not arguing the motion so much. I need to remind the committee of the number of meetings, the number of witnesses, the resources and the time of public servants and others that were invested into ArriveCAN and Phoenix. At public accounts, there were 24 meetings and 90 witnesses. At OGGO, there were 23 meetings and 65 witnesses. We are still looking, in public [more]

Supply and demand play a large part in this, and you mentioned that. Getting homes built will increase supply, lowering demand and lowering costs. We hope that formula works. How do you balance the important goals of affordability, the speed of delivery and encouraging...? You've already spoken two or three times today about innovative housing solutions.

Thank you. I may get only one question in, because I feel compelled to address some of the comments that were made today. I know that the opposition complains frequently in the House about the size of the deficit, but when government tries to deal with the size of the deficit through the comprehensive expenditure review, opposition members from all parties complain about that, so I'm not sure [more]

Thank you. Can you give us an update on the establishment of the joint transition office to support defence procurement reforms and how that will support defence procurement?

Thank you.

Is there a middle ground in terms of personal information, if CRA were to clearly articulate or report the writeoffs in those cases?