I was an MLA before I came here. We had lots of conversations about these kinds of programs.
One of the big pieces that a lot of people don't understand is that, when someone who's homeless ends up in the hospital—let's say their infection gets a little bit out of control—if they had a home to go to, they could be released far earlier because they would be able to maintain the hygiene requirements to prevent them from re-entering the hospital system. If they don't have a home to go to, they end up staying in the hospital at a cost to the taxpayer of substantially more money, and they're in a place that is not actually home or home-like in any capacity.
Part of the concept of supporting organizations like yours from the Government of Alberta, at least initially—and this is going back quite a few years—was the very concept of getting those people into a better program for what they actually needed, so that they could get that support.
Madam Boileau, are there any programs like that in the Timmins region, or anything like that which has that transitional housing to allow people to leave a hospital space or a medical space, to get into transitional housing?