Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses for being here and testifying today.
We've heard from a lot of folks now. Ms. Harris, you mentioned Raft, and you mentioned the Drop-In Centre. I think all of us were particularly interested to hear what they were talking about in terms of diversion, particularly with Raft, where their mission was to make sure a young person didn't become homeless in the first place. Obviously, it's probably a bit easier to divert younger people than people who have experienced homelessness for many years and have multiple other issues that they need to address as well.
I'm not really interested in assigning blame here, because I think that everybody in the homelessness space means well, but as my mom has said to me before, “You can be so heavenly minded that you're no earthly good.”
I wonder if you can help us understand, and I'll start with you on this, what happens in this space where emergency shelter becomes more long-term. What's the gap? What's missing between funds that have been dedicated federally—through Reaching Home, for example, or the national housing strategy—filtering down into communities, provinces and municipalities? Where's the gap there? What's missing?