Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses.
I come from Saint John–Rothesay in southern New Brunswick. Unfortunately, we're a city of two stories of great success, but we do lead the country in child poverty, babies born addicted, violence towards females under 12, low-income single females, literacy, and obesity. We have our challenges. We're travelling the country, obviously, to come up with a national strategy to alleviate a lot of that.
Mr. Whittle, I listened with great interest to many of the things you talked about. Let's start with shelters. Our office does a breakfast program with Outflow in Saint John in which we serve breakfast to the men. I have great affinity with the shelter and the men there. From a federal government perspective, what frustrates me is that we can't get a lot of direct money to help those shelters, those people who have fallen right through the net. I'm looking for a recommendation from you as to what we can do better federally to make sure that those most vulnerable are looked after in our shelters.