Thank you.
Minister, while you're here, I wanted to have the opportunity to talk to you about poverty and community supports.
A part of your mandate letter was the advancement of the community services recovery fund, and I want to talk about that, Minister, because that's what's of importance in my riding right now.
I had a meeting this week with a number of women's organizations that have put in a pre-budget submission to talk about loss of funding for the capacity-building grants that they've had in the past. LEAF, the YWCA, Oxfam, the Elizabeth Fry Society and the Canadian Council of Muslim Women are all concerned about how it is going to impact families and children in the community when they lose this capacity funding.
We all know that COVID-19 has had a huge impact, a disproportionate impact, on women and gender-diverse people at this point in time. This organization, a coalition of women's groups, has asked for $25 million over five years in relation to capacity-building funds, and I'm wondering if you could expand a little bit on what's happening with community services recovery funds and if they could benefit from that, because we cannot afford to lose this capacity that has been built in the communities at this point in time.