Thank you, MP Gladu.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer undertook a study of this issue. A number of studies have been completed by organizations such as ours. We know that for Ontario alone, for example, that gap is $22 billion for urban indigenous people. The Parliamentary Budget Officer indicates that the need ranges, depending on how you measure it, between $638 million and $1.4 billion per year.
This is help we need now. This is not something that needs to be further “co-developed”, as per the phrase used in the budget, for another five years. The strategy has already been developed. What we need is delivery, not further study.