Thank you very much.
Thank you for coming today. As a former front-line worker for 10 years on the streets, I've been scribbling notes because I have so many questions I'd like to ask.
One of the things we've been able to witness time and again in different communities is what I call the cycle: the cycle of poverty and the cycle of mental illness that people get stuck in. It starts with mental illness. If they have a mental illness, they lose their job and become homeless. Through unfortunate circumstances and because of the mental illness, they get caught with addiction to some type of substance, which then continues to spiral.
There are so many fantastic organizations out there. In my community of Sudbury, I can think of the Canadian Mental Health Association, Centre de santé communautaire de Sudbury—there are so many of them. However, we're trying to come into this cycle from so many different points. We're trying to come in from the homeless avenue, from the mental health avenue. We get four or five different case files opening up, all trying to find this person one support system.
In your opinion, have you been able to find any way we can stop this cycle, and is there something the federal government can do to unite all these great organizations with that one access point and stop that spinning cycle so we can provide the support at that point?