Thank you for your question, Mr. Ste-Marie.
As part of Canada's strategy to deal with housing challenges, it's important to consider the shortage.
To address the shortage, whether it's three and a half million or five million, we still need to implement all of the measures we're dealing with, and we still need to support communities where they are taking place.
I'm not going to project on what decisions Minister Freeland may make in the budget. Suffice it to say, we continue to support community organizations that are helping folks who do not have a place to live. Just in advance of the holidays, we topped up the Reaching Home program, for example, with an additional $100 million so that it could address acute needs in advance of the cold weather setting in.
We're going to continue to work with communities at the municipal level and with service-provider organizations to identify how we can best leverage federal supports. However, I'm not in a position to project on what budget decisions may be taken in advance of the upcoming federal budget.