Yes, 100%, you can see it on both sides. The biggest thing is that it's affecting the cost of how you get out.
Look at your own life and the difference in cost from 10 years ago. We're seeing that for survivors. We see it when there isn't any increase in the supports provided to them. Even in Alberta, with income support, that number hasn't changed. This doesn't allow them more flexibility in terms of what they put into the properties they're looking into or the way they support their families.
There are more costs as far as our shelters are concerned, even for those working at shelters. The ability to keep shelters open and to have the operational capacity to deal with the number of survivors.... When the cost of living keeps going up, and when increases to wages and funding to shelters do not align with that, it makes it really hard for them to stay up to date. Then, think about the cost, more and more, for a survivor to leave, as my counterpart indicated. The worst time is when they choose to leave. It's so expensive. If you don't have your damage deposit, utilities deposit and everything else set up and ready to go at that time, it is really discouraging. We see a lot of women staying.
The cost of living applies to everyone right across the board.