We are acting as a supplement to the existing resources. We are trying to support the work that's going on there. We're trying to free up the police so that they can do their job better. We're trying to make it so that fewer of our people go away in ambulances because of violence. We de-escalate when we get a chance.
Our whole mandate is to be a support in our community, because we are of the community. I live in the north end of Winnipeg, on Stella between McKenzie and McGregor. It happens right outside my house. The exploitation, the drug dealing—it's all there. That's how I got involved. I want to stop it. I want to prevent it. I want to help my community members live better lives.
Again, it all comes back to poverty. It really all does come back to poverty. That's what we need to address here. People living in poverty are going to act desperately. Why do people self-medicate? To escape. To escape what? To escape pain. What's the basis of their pain? They can't function in this world.
There are not enough resources and not enough job placements available. We're trying to create job placements in our organization as much as possible, this year with 90,000 dollars' worth of temporary job placements and things like that, but now we have CRA interested in what we're doing. They're telling me we can't do the things we're doing because we're not doing it to the letter of the law with CRA.