Thank you so much for that question. You point to a really important need during COVID-19 to support the non-profits and charitable organizations that are providing much needed services to the most vulnerable populations in our community.
The emergency community support fund comes from feedback we received and discussions we had with the charitable and non-profit sector. The $350-million fund was essentially put together to help the helpers, to help them continue the work they're doing, but also, hopefully, to expand their capacity to deliver even more support and more services to the most vulnerable populations in Canada.
We are doing everything we can through that fund to make sure they cover every vulnerable community across our great country from coast to coast to coast. We have a rural lens and an urban lens on it. We have demanded disaggregated data up front with respect to that fund. We will continue to monitor any gaps that emerge in the implementation of that fund. I'm very proud of the fact that we moved very quickly to establish it and we are getting money out the door.
Many organizations that already provide important services to our most vulnerable are themselves facing financial pressures, and the $350-million emergency community support fund is meant to support them.