Thank you very much for the question.
It's true that the charitable sector does good work. I mention a few at the risk of not mentioning others. There's Habitat for Humanity, for instance, that does good work. There are other groups in Alberta, such as the Calgary Homeless Foundation, a charitable group that pulls together a lot of resources from the private and community sectors to achieve good for the people of Calgary. I think the universal view—if I could speak on behalf of those groups, and I speak with them on a regular basis—is that while they do good work and want to do more, and they appreciate the tools that allow them to do that, this still doesn't address the scale of the problem.
For instance, Fort McMurray is a boom town by any reckoning, and yet it has a very serious housing and homelessness problem. In fact, in many parts of Alberta, the homelessness problem is caused by.... Half or more of the people in homeless shelters are working at good jobs, or jobs that would be good in most other parts of the country, but because of the lack of affordable housing, they simply can't get access. So while the measures you're mentioning are important and will allow charitable institutions to do a better job, they don't address the scale of the problem. That's why we've said that the government needs to address it.
In reviewing Canada's compliance, the UN committee did say that Canada needs to have a national program, in partnership with the provinces, territories, municipalities, and private and community sectors. We're calling for that as well.