Absolutely. I mean, families need a place to go in their communities for resources, backup support, and assistance to help them navigate their communities. They're working across health, social services, and various benefit programs. They're falling through the cracks, and because they're falling through the cracks their kids are ending up in child welfare or in long-term care. The idea of community hubs as places that provide support for social enterprise and places for families to gather and to develop initiatives to provide them social support is the piece that's missing. It's not about delivering services directly but about giving a place in the community where people can gather to come up with creative solutions in their local communities.
We need locally responsive strategies, and we need the federal government to have a relationship with local communities. While transfers to provinces, whether for housing or health care or home care, are all important, we need a direct relationship between the federal government and local communities to help them come up with locally based, community-based solutions.