Thank you, Ms. Lavack. Sorry, but I'll respond in English since I'll be speaking more quickly.
We have the time limits.
Thank you so much for that question. There is so much that I would love to say.
The core housing need tool that's used in housing needs assessments is an example of where we're looking more particularly at the number of people in a community who need to be housed, the housing that exists and whether that housing—and the number of bedrooms, for example, in each house—best matches the population.
What we hear, particularly from indigenous self-government of housing initiatives, is that there is a need, as a community, to be able to assess whether that measure accurately reflects the housing priorities. For example, in its housing plan, the Tłįchǫ government has prioritized housing for teachers, knowing that there are teachers from the community or from the region, of course, but also that there are teachers coming from outside. It recognizes, though, that every year there's a challenge in terms of beginning school in September because there aren't teachers because there's no housing for teachers.
While that might not address that core housing need metric in terms of matching or prioritizing housing for existing members of the community, it's taking a step back and saying, “Education is important for our community, and we want to ensure that our children are educated and that there's sustainability in education.” I think broadening our assessment of core housing need and how those needs and priorities are assessed is very important.
With respect to homelessness strategies in the north, we know that mobility and migration are such a huge factor in indigenous experiences of homelessness in particular—moving between family members, moving between places. Therefore, when we're looking at an indigenous homelessness strategy, whether it's for Inuit, first nations or Métis, we really need to also be looking outside the north and at some of those centres that are of importance to people who are looking to access support services and housing. We need to recognize that this kind of geography of homelessness and of supports for people who are unhoused has to be expanded beyond the north.