Thank you, Madam Chair.
This testimony is interesting. I had some questions on another subject, but I'll ask them later. Instead, I'm going to continue on the question of housing.
When I visit shelters, it's not the first time I've been told that emergency spaces are unfortunately not being freed up. In fact, women can't get a place in a second stage shelter to be able to get out of the cycle of poverty, and they're afraid of ending up on the street.
Ms. Riendeau, during the pandemic, I had discussions with the Ministry of Public Security in Quebec City. Money had been promised for shelter spaces. Investments had been announced by the federal government for these emergency spaces, and these funds were to be channelled through the Quebec government. But it took another six months to get these funds released. Would you like to say something about the fact that, in the midst of a pandemic, it took another six months for the federal government to release the money to the Quebec government, even though we were living in an emergency situation?