Well, with the previous government we were in negotiation to set up exactly the same system. The current government has said they're not going to have that conversation with the federal government. They've said it's a federal responsibility. I contrast that with the former Prime Minister of Canada, who said that housing was a provincial responsibility.
As far as I'm concerned, if Canadians need housing, all orders of Canadian government have to work together to deliver results. That's the result we're seeing in British Columbia, where we have all levels of government working together to effectively build out the right kind of supportive housing that depopulates the shelter and gives municipalities the capacity they require when natural disasters inside Canada or circumstances outside Canada create a surge and a demand for emergency housing. We have to get away from running emergency housing at 100% in this country. It is not an effective, humane, or even cost-effective way to deal with these issues.
The Province of Quebec has been very focused on this, long before the border issue. The homeless counts in Montreal and Quebec are significantly lower than they are in other cities. Why? Because the provincial government has made it a priority to hold emergency housing in reserve instead of using it as full-time capacity. That surge capacity, now with federal resources, is starting to even out and return to a more manageable set of levels. Hopefully there isn't another significant population displacement. If a forest fire the size of Fort McMurray's, God forbid, happened in the province of Quebec, there would be a whole lot of people looking for emergency housing. We need to build for that and think about that going forward.