I believe it's the partnering. Tanis can tell you how many people they're serving across Canada. They have first-hand information. I believe we have that with the Salvation Army and the United Way projects. It's not only the three of us; there are many across the country. You have to find a way to dialogue with us, specifically on the level of asking what we need.
On any given day, we have 40 men in our men's shelter in Halifax. There are upwards of 80 others in another shelter that simply provides them with a bed. In our continuum of care, we would like to move those people through ours because we provide three meals a day, we'll take them to the doctor, we'll sit in the emergency room because that homeless person thinks he's invisible. He knows he has cancer, but if somebody doesn't speak for him he will never get to see the doctor. We would like to move more of those people through.
We also have candidates who are re-employable. We have a gentleman right now who has been living in the woods for three years. He has skills, a job ethic, a work ethic, and now he has a job but he cannot support himself. If the only reason we do it is because it's the right thing to do, to get this 27-year-old man back into a productive job, then we have to do that.
To go back to your question, I believe you have to have a dialogue with a number of partners across the country and ask what they need to move more people from a shelter bed to a job, to be self-sufficient. We don't have to discover America again. The map is already here. We simply need to open the pages and ask the Salvation Army, “What can we do?” Ask the United Way “What can we do?” Ask the YMCA-YWCA, “What can we do? Tell us what you would do today to move some people back into affordable housing and back into productivity, or least be able to care for themselves.”