I think there's a whole spectrum of housing for women that needs to be addressed. Yukon Housing is building an affordable unit that was supposed to be for women and children, but it was extended to single-parent families, including men.
We desperately need accommodation for single women who don't have dependants, who have the lowest rate of social assistance. They often have no family or any kind of fallback system.
We desperately need more housing for women leaving the transition home. There are five units that are always filled, and that's through the whole of the Yukon. Women very often come from rural areas to Whitehorse for safety and shelter. There's basically nothing in the communities. Dawson City and Watson Lake have a shelter, but as it stands now, there are only five units for second-stage housing for the entire Yukon
Kaushee's Place, which is a women's transition home, has a shovel-ready project that has been sent back and forth between the government for more and more tweaking. That's been going on for several years now. There may be many reasons for that, but I don't really comprehend them. I think Yukon Housing does as much as it can given the funding it has.
I'd like to say something about the social inclusion policy. The problem is that it seems to be moving rapidly, which is a good thing, but it is not exactly modelling social inclusion in the way it's rolling it out. It has not included any non-governmental organizations in the design or brainstorming of the ideas so far. I don't think it's modelling social inclusion. I think the inclusion of non-governmental organizations from the very early inception and conception phases would have been a very positive thing. It would have indicated to non-governmental organizations in the Yukon, which provide a lot of resources for people living in poverty.... That would have been a really good move.