Yes, it does. As a matter of fact, a year and a half ago I was speaking at a conference in Calgary of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. We were on a tour of downtown Calgary's east side, which is where a lot of the problems they're experiencing are. There's homelessness there, and a lot of their shelters are located there, and the City of Calgary was explaining what their attempts have been to accommodate these people, to get them into safe shelter and make the downtown feel safer.
While we were walking, I was walking with the mayor of a small community in B.C., out on the island actually, and he asked how things were going in Saskatoon. I explained the problems with homelessness, people living on the street and crime. He stopped me, and he said, “Everything you've said for the past five minutes you could drop right into a city council meeting in my community. Everybody in my community thinks we're the only ones dealing with it and that it's all my fault.”
That's pretty much how my residents feel. The more I talk to people across Canada, my colleagues, the more I learn that we're all dealing with this.
I do think Saskatoon is perhaps in a bit more of a stressed situation than others, because, as I indicated, we are typically the destination of an exodus from the north. Quite frankly, as long as—
