RBC has had reconciliation initiatives at the forefront for many decades. We began relationships probably about 60 years ago with our first on-reserve branch. Since then, we've been listening and communicating with first nations communities across the country.
There are so many situations where we are able to help them, and we see a huge shift in the first nations communities swinging from a managing poverty perspective to a managing wealth perspective. We find that financial literacy is in demand, and value adds is something that is part of reconciliation. Housing is just one of the agenda items that we work on passionately, because we see the direct impact on their health based on overcrowded conditions.
COVID-19 brought back to the forefront how important health is, when you see such things as COVID and TB spread throughout a community very quickly, with high numbers based on overcrowding in itself. That is one way to start turning the wheel to having real social impact in a first nations community. It's very important to this organization.