Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to today's witnesses for sharing their experiences with us.
I'm grateful for the opportunity to welcome Blue Door to this committee and to have its local perspective contribute to our study, so I'll be focusing my questions on Mr. Braithwaite.
At the last committee meeting, we started talking about homelessness in Canada, particularly during the pandemic. Blue Door has provided life-saving support and shelter for the vulnerable communities in York region for many years.
Michael, I congratulate you on the way you've been able to engage members of the regional government, convincing the police chief to sleep in cardboard boxes in the middle of the night. That kind of creativity has created a lot of community support.
Based on your experience over the last year, can you elaborate on the impact and the risks that homelessness groups have been experiencing, particularly with respect to a reluctance to seek out help out of fear of transmission? How are you able to cope with that?