I'm pleased to hear that those kinds of investments are being made. I'd like to put a plug in for the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Inc. They have a nationwide collection of organizations that are housing providers for indigenous communities. They work both on and off reserve as well as with non-status urban people. Some of the projects have provided shelter facilities for women and children. They're doing very good work. They need to hear that the commitment to what they heard in the beginning will be kept. That's important.
The other thing I want to say about the whole issue is that the multi-dimensional needs come not just from human beings' difficulties. We're also looking at the external reality of what the climate is doing to human beings. For example, you have floods in some communities, you have forest fires that destroy other communities and you have other major natural disasters that cause power outages for hundreds if not thousands of people at a time. There's emergency preparedness that's needed for that. There's natural disaster preparation and work that needs to be done for that.
The other thing that I've seen with the Build Canada Homes strategy is an interest in building to scale and building at scale. That says to me that a majority of that funding will be for developers and contractors. Somewhere along the way, there needs to be a niche or an opening for people who want to learn to build their own. The reason I say that is that indigenous people have been on the North, Central and South American continent since time immemorial, 50,000 years before the present, and in those 50,000 years, indigenous peoples have been able to provide housing for themselves.