In answer to the question, no, there's never enough money when you're dealing with that number of people. As Ms. Nicolet referenced as well, our number increased phenomenally around there, and so when we have clients who come in and they're accessing services like that.... During the pandemic we had on- and off-reserve clients who come in. What we've noticed is that a lot of the on-reserve programming was shut down or hard to reach because everybody started working from home.
Friendship centres left their doors open. We dealt with the pandemic on the ground. We just deal with what comes up. Our service has seen a really large increase in demand for those, because the addictions and mental health people were struggling to reach their clients or their workers on-reserve, so those clients were coming over to the friendship centre to still get services provided to them when they needed them, not when somebody was able to call them back.
The funding that came out in the first round definitely did not meet the need within our community. I find that straight across the board for friendship centres in B.C., that was the same response. The second round of funding that has come out—
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