Yes, you're quite right.
In fact, at the end of the financial year ending March 31, we found ourselves in two rather incongruous situations.
Firstly, there was the end of the call for proposals for the encampment and crisis response program, which was a federal initiative. We received little information as to whether or not the funding might be carried over.
We then learnt that the Reaching Home program had been refocused on more urban areas. We were simply not informed about the call for proposals. In fact, I don't think we're the only ones in this situation. Indeed, I sit on a regional committee dealing with rural homelessness, and I know that several organizations had not been informed either. We were therefore unable to submit an application.
Memphremagog is a very large region, but we have absolutely no funding. I could also mention the Haut-Saint-François region and the town of Coaticook, which are facing similar situations.
So some projects are coming to an end, and services that we have been providing for a whole year are being abruptly cut short. There is a bit of uncertainty, if I may put it that way, about the future and the services we will be able to offer as winter approaches.
