Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Ms. Farha, to follow up on your remarks, one of the things that I think we need to be aware of—and my colleague Michael McLeod talked about the north and the unique situation there—is that when you gave your examples, you used three major cities. Poverty and housing issues are alive and well, unfortunately, in rural Canada as well. When we hear the narrative about this, we continually hear about large cities. As you said, you just have to walk down the street.
In my community, walking down the street, you indeed may not see it, but if you look behind the curtains, as they say, or if you talk to those folks who are helping with providing meals and shelter.... Our police station lobby is now open in the winter for people because we have no shelter and no housing.
This is not a question, so much as a request, that as you're going through these processes, you provide a more broad view and a broader conversation around those situations that are outside the large city centres.
