In terms of the housing strategy integrating with the poverty reduction strategy, I think it's a natural fit. I think that, automatically, when you're writing poverty reduction, housing has to be a piece of it—meeting those basic needs. I think that when you look at our poverty reduction strategy, you'll absolutely see that it's interwoven in everything we do. It is a natural fit. As you're writing it, you'll see that happen.
I absolutely agree with you. You can't just take our solution, drop it on another community, and think that it's going to work. Really, you have to give communities the autonomy to spend the funding and do what they need to within their communities.
As far as basic minimum income is concerned, I, personally, have a very big interest in this topic. I think there is a lot of of merit to it. If you're going to do it, you need to essentially dismantle the system we have now and start over again. If you were just going to add a basic minimum income to the current provincial models and to the different funding sources, I don't believe it would work.
You have a strategy in place. You have a child tax credit system already there. If you were to take a look at the basic minimum income in Canada and dismantle all the other levels, all the income support levels that aren't working, and deliver a basic minimum income based on a sliding tax scale, like the child tax benefit, I think you would have an absolute win when it comes to income—and Medicine Hat is the place to do that pilot.