By the root cause I mean ensuring that every family who requires it has adequate and suitable housing that meets their needs. It's the foundational piece that's required. It's pretty hard to address the social ills, the addiction issues, the overcrowding and all of the other challenges that exist when families and individuals don't have a place to call home.
The root cause of a lot of the challenges we see with our people, the migration to urban centres and the challenges brought on as people move out of the communities, is really representative of the fact that there's not adequate housing in our communities. They end up migrating out to urban areas and run into a whole host of new challenges. Our principal philosophy is that providing adequate and suitable housing will be one of those main issues where families and individuals don't need to worry. Then we can start tackling other issues, such as job creation and better health services and educational outcomes for our children.
Again, when I talk about the root cause, a lot of the challenges we face as first nations people stem from the fact that we don't have adequate housing.