I'm happy to answer the question.
Taking into consideration what the former panellists have talked about, not everyone experiencing a mental health issue is at risk of homelessness, to be really clear, so you still want to make those investments.
Think about investments through Health Canada, for example, around mental health challenges or youth experiencing homelessness. What is the common set of goals you want to achieve with those investments? The youth employment strategy...and the list goes on. For young people in that case, who have that common set of concerns or issues and happen to be falling into homelessness or housing instability, can you not create a common set of goals you want to achieve with those multiple strategies?
First, in any good organization, it starts with getting your own house in order. It's about bringing these departments together and saying, “Look, when we touch each other's clients—the people we're trying to support—what are the indicators we're looking for? What are the outcomes we're trying to achieve? Can we not coinvest?” It's like the federal government coming up with its own coinvestment strategy.
I could go on, but perhaps I'll leave it right there for now.
