Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all three of you for not only being here today but for all the work that you do in the communities helping women and their children. We really do appreciate it. Thank you for informing our study in this way.
I wanted to tell my colleagues, Lynn, how I met you and how I found out about Armagh House. I was knocking on doors in the 2011 election and I knocked on the door of Armagh House and like a good candidate, I wanted to know who lived there and if they would be voting. I wanted to meet them. The person who answered the door was very cryptic and refused to tell me who lived there. I thought this is strange. It's such a big house. It's beautiful. Clearly people live here. So your folks do a good job of....
Even though it's on a street in a regular old neighbourhood, it's a little bit tucked away. It just kind of got me curious. There's no big sign, as you know. We met shortly after that and I got to hear about all the good work that you do there. I wanted to thank you for that. Here we are about three and a half years later. Now that I know what goes on at this second-stage house, I'm glad that it exists there to help the people in our community and our neighbourhood. So thank you for that.
There's a whole bunch of things I wanted to ask you but let me start with something I think is very immediate and that I know you do well, and that's your goal to increase the safety of the women who are living at Armagh. How do you do this? What kinds of supports do you offer them? What works? What doesn't?