Yes. I would like to add something in regard to housing and homelessness. The federal contribution is helping here, of course, but what we need is a bigger investment. Demonstrated by the huge successes that these kinds of initiatives bring, led by the non-profits, it is just remarkable. We are just opening 20 units of supportive housing in a complex here in Halifax in the next couple of weeks, whereby individuals who are currently housed in the shelter system will move into these units and where we will have support for the upcoming years. If we could just have more of these, it would alleviate so much pressure on the system. It would just be remarkable.
We might be able to build housing like this every two years. We have five priorities in our community plan, including the construction of new development, renovation of very old housing stock, some money for programming, and a small margin for research. That's all we've had for two years, and we never knew if we would get it, which makes it really difficult.
So for me it's really an easy answer: we just need more money. The non-profit sector knows what they have to do very, very well, and they know what's needed, so we don't have to examine this any more. Working in a shelter, they know the needs of the shelter residents.
Thank you for your question.