Dr. Patel, I thought I would ask you a few questions.
It seems we're on a similar life trajectory. I was a long-time emergency room doctor, and now I have taken a job where I'm forced to look at the bigger picture. It sounds like when you're working at Ottawa Inner City Health, you have the same kind of perspective: You're seeing a lot of people with homelessness, mental health problems and poverty.
I've been in Ottawa for only five years, but it seems to me that in the five years that I've been here, things in the downtown core have gotten worse. There seems to be a lot more homelessness. There are a lot more people openly using drugs. There are people overdosing on the street. There seems to be a lot of people with mental health issues. For us to walk into the core to the mall, our chance of being accosted by somebody who's either high or has mental health problems is about 50%.
Maybe I'm wrong, but do you think things have gotten worse among people in the downtown core with addictions and mental health-related problems? Is that the case? If that's the case and you agree, what are we doing wrong, or what do we have to do differently to better address this issue?