In my city, about 60% of the houseless population is indigenous. It's a massive number and it's continuing to grow. The reality is that they have a distrust of the federal government and a distrust of the services because of the inability for them to find support. They often don't even have ID.
I will also speak of a real person in my community, who has now passed on. It was my birth mom. She was a houseless person for a period of her life and it's because she was a victim of the sixties scoop. She was taken as a child. She went through many homes. She found herself on the streets of Edmonton.
The child and family services ministry has produced houseless folks. Have you ever had a conversation with your colleagues, in particular in Indigenous Services Canada, to try to address the reality that the numbers are increasing? Even if you increase the stock, the houseless population is increasing because of the government's inaction on solving the issues related to child and family services.
Do you recognize that as a problem?