Thank you for your question.
The pandemic has exacerbated the housing shortage in some of our indigenous communities. We know this will affect not only community members, but also staff, such as nurses, professors and police officers who come from elsewhere and work in those communities. That is one of the challenges we are facing in recruitment.
Let's take for example a community where, in normal times, we have enough housing for three to five nurses. However, owing to COVID‑19, more staff had to be sent there for augmented teams. Given that context, there was occasionally no housing available for everyone.
That is a reality. The department is really trying to resolve the housing shortage issue. I think we have invested just under $1 billion in that initiative since 2015. Further investment is needed and will continue to be provided. That is the reality of our human resources services. They must think of not only housing, but also the safety—