The Quebec system effectively maps out the social service and housing network across the entire province and brings relevant stakeholders together on an ongoing basis in a proactive way to manage homelessness, shelter use, and people in core housing need, but also other social dynamics. This is a very effective network that includes medical service as well, which is a critical part of what we're dealing with. This network allows the pressure points to be redistributed across a provincial network with federal support and with municipal local delivery models. It is worked as a triage system.
To the question that was asked about how much a bus costs, it depends whether it's going to Chicoutimi or to Gatineau. On a case-by-case basis, we look at what costs are incurred, and we support the province to mitigate those costs. What we rely on with the Province of Quebec is not the funding model but a systemic response, which we provide resources for and local municipalities deliver. This has proven to be exceptionally good at sustaining a population base in the shelter system below full capacity.
Currently in Canada there are 14,000 emergency shelter beds across the country on any given night. They are not always in the right city, for the right pressure point. Part of what the system has to do is try to get people to move to places where there is better housing to support them, as we build out the new national housing strategy and further reduce those numbers and that dependency. That's the systemic approach we're taking. Those are the numbers we're dealing with, and that's the investment we've made as a federal government.