It has to be a shared goal, a common goal that everybody has together. In the Region of Peel, we are an upper-tier government. There's the Region of Peel, and there are the three municipalities: Brampton, Mississauga, and Caledon. But collectively we have a strategic plan, which has just been put in place this last year, that goes out for 20 years.
This council has put priorities together. There are about five or six priorities, but the first one is reducing poverty. We have engaged our mayors and all the local and the regional politicians, along with our core capacity-building agencies, such as the United Way, our school boards, etc. The big stakeholders in the community are on the same page. That speaks volumes to where we want to go with this initiative; our priority is that.
Everything we're doing in social services in our human services department is focused on reducing poverty. The other one that we also have is to reduce our wait-list for affordable housing. Our deliverology is focused specifically on that.
There is the will to do this, and the energies are going to it.