Actually, just as a follow-up, National Chief Bellegarde is on the record as saying that the waiting list for post-secondary students is about 10,000. I appreciate the focus on the lack of funding, because really that is the main barrier as education costs go up and the 2% cap continues to be in place. That means less and less money for first nations people to be able to access post-secondary opportunities.
Speaking in terms of structural barriers that are deeply linked to poverty, one of the issues that many of my colleagues have been involved with is the call for a national housing strategy, recognizing that if people don't have a safe place to live, or a place to live period, the ability to access training, to hold down a job, and in many cases just simply survive is put at risk. I'd love to hear your views on both the urban reality and the on-reserve or rural reality. Is a national housing strategy critical? Should the federal government be involved in producing solutions around affordable housing, around housing on reserve, and is that part of alleviating poverty? Is this something you hear from the people you work with?
Perhaps we could start with you, Ms. Hare, and then Ms. Levine, and then Ms. Flanagan.