The civic facility that I mentioned, which has the potential for post-secondary education and a museum and archives, has upgrades to our leisure centre that our kids access, but it also includes—this is one building that's on the same site, essentially—the youth mental wellness facility. We need some upgrades to the Greg Moore Youth Centre, which is where this youth mental wellness facility is located. It's really critical for us to be able to get funding.
I think the federal government does definitely have a role to play with our kids. It's clear that this is a value for our federal government. Our provincial government is invested in mental health, obviously, being responsible for health care in this province, so we're communicating to both levels of government about the need. The challenge is that we communicate separately to each level of government. I come to my different resources in the federal government and I tell them that I need it. Then I go to my resources in the provincial government and I tell them that I need it.
There's an awful lot of politicking going on in this city right now. You're going to see that at one o'clock today. At the end of the day, we have kids in need in this community, and the decisions that get made about our most vulnerable people—who, in my opinion, include our kids, who need to access mental health resources—need to be made separately and apart from politics. If the federal government invests money that needs to get down to the ground level in cities, you need to make sure it gets there. There should not be spending that is unequal, spending that is done for partisan reasons. We need to make sure that the money that's invested from our federal government gets to the places that really need it. It should not be spent through the in-between provincial government in cities that have more relationships or better relationships with the provincial government.
Sometimes smaller cities need to fight really strongly and really loudly for what they need, and that's the position that I find myself in right now in this city. I think it's really important that we have open channels of communications that are multilateral.