Appearance before the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities

DATE/TIME:
May 4, 2021 (6:30 pm – 7:30 pm)

LOCATION:
Videoconference

• A: Opening Remarks
• B: Briefing Notes – INFC
1. INFC Programming
1. Investing in Canada Plan – Status Update
2. OAG Audit of the Investing in Canada Plan
3. Integrated Bilateral Agreements
4. Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund
5. Canada Community-Building Fund (currently Gas Tax Fund)
6. Programs Administered Through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
7. Green and Inclusive Community Buildings
8. National Infrastructure Assessment
9. Canada Healthy Communities Initiative
10. Transit Funding
2. Rural and Broadband
11. INFC Funding for Rural and Northern Communities
12. INFC Broadband Funding
13. Eastern Ontario Regional Network Cellular Gap Project
14. Nunavut Undersea Fibre Optic Cable Project
15. Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) Project
16. Canada Infrastructure Bank – Broadband Investments
17. Affordable Housing Investments
3. Other
18. Indigenous Infrastructure Investments
19. Operational Funding for Municipalities and Transit - Safe Restart Agreement
20. Economic Impacts of Infrastructure Investments
21. Flow and Lapse of Funds
22. Financial Information – Main Estimates – INFC
• C: Briefing Notes – ISED
1. Rural Broadband
1. Universal Broadband Fund
2. Broadband Coverage Maps
3. Rural and Remote Broadband
4. Broadband And Indigenous Communities
5. EORN/SWIFT
6. Passive Infrastructure
2. Support for Vulnerable Population
7. Economic Recovery
8. Regional Relief and Recovery Fund
9. Women Entrepreneurship Strategy
10. Helping SMEs Secure Funding
11. Black Entrepreneurship Funding
• D: Briefing Notes – WAGE
1. Hot Issues
1. Gendered Impacts of COVID-19
2. Women’s Economic Security
3. Senior Women
4. Rural Women
5. Gender-based Violence and Rural Broadband
6. Feminist Response and Recovery Fund
2. Program
7. Department for Women and Gender Equality Funding