Thank you, Chair.
Thank you very much. You've given us excellent presentations on some very specific ideas.
You presented to the Senate's anti-poverty report. You're quoted in here on a couple of occasions, and I'm sure you had a lot to do with some of the recommendations that were made.
In one recommendation in particular, recommendation 68:
The committee recommends that the federal government require an Aboriginal working group to identify priorities for urban Aboriginal people and designated funding for this purpose within all federal funding to communities to address housing and homelessness.
Another thing the Senate report did that we've been getting into is to look at this issue of the cost of poverty. Some people say we can't afford to address poverty. It has become very clear that we can't afford not to address poverty. There's a quotation here on the homelessness section, from somebody saying:
People should be pushed to do something simply out of humanity, but if you want to talk about money, it costs $48,000 a year to leave someone on the street. It costs $28,000 a year to house them.
You talked about the importance of not just transitional housing but actually building housing. Do you have anything that you want to add along those lines about the cost of actually addressing these issues versus the cost of not addressing them?