Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister.
I'm going to start by making a brief comment. I appreciated the thoughts on how this homelessness partnering strategy required some consultation, and some opportunities to get it going and flowing. I have to say that I see the results in the riding that I represent, Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. There's now actually a transfer, and there's a group that is very nimble and agile and are excellent at being strategic about what and how it gets funded.
I hear regularly from the opposition calls for a national strategy on this and a national strategy on that, and, to be frank, I love the words “homelessness partnering strategy”, because what we're doing is supporting the people who know how to create the solutions in the community. That's just a general comment, but perhaps you could talk a little bit more about the model and why it's being developed.