The funds were definitely flexible. It really was up to each shelter to decide. As we know, the situation varies so much from region to region across the country, so shelters were able to spend the money on PPE in the early days, on alternative accommodation, on transportation. We all know that in rural areas there's virtually no public transportation, so that can become very costly.
This is one of those situations where it differs from province to province. I can say, for example, that the Saskatchewan government did not offer any additional funding to its shelters. For Manitoba, if they did, it was minimal. Again, it's a patchwork across the country.
To my knowledge, no shelter closed during the pandemic, and the shelters have said that had this funding not been made available, that could not have happened.