Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you so much to the three witnesses.
Just your five-minute opening remarks were really detailed [Technical difficulty—Editor] set the stage for our study.
I have a question for the three witnesses, and I'll start with Lise Martin.
First, I want to thank you for the leadership of your organization in distributing the $100-million COVID funding rapidly, within days of a fiscal year, to women's shelters. I heard a lot in my riding in Sudbury and West Nipissing on how beneficial that was. Also, I want to thank you for your support in getting the $200 million to the shelters in a fast and expeditious way.
My question to Lise—and then I'll ask both other witnesses too—is this: When we talk about these leverages that we provided with the $100 million and the $200 million, how has that leveraged participation with the provinces? When we talk about core funding from the federal government and we talk about funding from the provincial government, how is that [Technical difficulty—Editor], and has the federal funding supported your member agencies in trying to look at some of those services? The flexibility is important, so I don't want to pinpoint. I want to let you leave the money open. Can you talk a bit about the criteria, how fast the money was? Is that supporting some of the provincial partners to help play a role here with the federal government, leading up to the national action plan?