Thank you very much for your supportive comments.
Certainly, our undertaking and concern around the loss of the national homeless initiative and the SCPI funding this summer sent many of us as service providers into a great deal of concern.
Looking at how the government might be able to assist in this issue, because it is a national issue, even though it does have implications at the municipal and provincial levels as well, would be to initially create a housing strategy, a long-term strategy. One of the things that's been wonderful about SCPI is that it has enabled a number of things, but it doesn't offer sustainable long-term supports or housing that really will be necessary in the long term to solve the housing crisis and the homelessness situation we have here in Canada.
The second thing to do would be really to look at where there might be some small adjustments that the federal government could make that would in fact decrease the number of people living in poverty or at risk of homelessness. And there would be a number of adjustments. We talk about them specifically. Each would contribute a small amount, but collectively it would certainly help to inform and contribute to an overall reduction in homelessness.