I appreciate that, because I see what's happening in my community of Timmins and I know it's as bad, and worse, in other northern communities. In northern Ontario, we've always known that if we don't stick together, we fall really hard.
One of the efforts was by the Thunder Bay Social Services Administration Board. They have the highest opioid-related mortality rates in all of the Ontario public health unit region—77.2 per 100,000. They've reached out to work with Cochrane district. They've reached out to work with Kenora. Everybody's coming to the table to try to find solutions. It's the one thing that's really inspiring in this crisis.
They've asked to have the government recognize the work they're doing through Reaching Home, because they're also taking the enormous pressure off Treaty No. 9 communities, in which we have 18 to 20 people living in three-bedroom homes. Kenora, Thunder Bay and Cochrane district are under enormous pressure from the housing crisis that is 10,000 times worse up in Treaty No. 9 territory.
They've been reaching out to Mushkegowuk and to NAN. Would the federal government be willing to sit with them and to say that it recognizes the larger northern Ontario issue? A single municipality simply can't take this on.