Thank you.
Thank you for coming today and sharing your experience and knowledge and stories with us.
Both of you are obviously people who are in the trenches every day, working face to face with those for whom we're trying to put in place some kind of a national plan, who it will address. They seem almost a million miles apart, this national plan and how we can get it to you so that you can do what you do. I guess ultimately it would be great if we had a system that didn't need you, but my hunch is that that's not going to happen, so how do we address that?
Kate, you talked about the evolving role of Maryhouse. It started out as a place where people who came to town for health care would stay, and men coming looking for work would stay, and now it's more dealing with those who are already here and who are looking for sustenance on a daily basis.
Now that the food bank has come and is picking up some of the work, is there an evolution in what you're doing? Where do you go from here? And what is it that you would think we, as federal members of Parliament looking at a federal plan, could do that would be most helpful to your work?