This is a good conversation, and we need to have it.
One issue that keeps coming up, which is very interesting and difficult to deal with, is creating a national strategy for homelessness. When I talk to non-military people and chat about my work with the veterans affairs committee, they think that homeless veterans are in the general population for shortages of housing.
I'm hearing—and perhaps, Ms. Lowther, you could speak to this—that there are veterans who are victims of housing shortages, perhaps in the area of the country where they live, but that many of them also have avoidance behaviours, and they just don't want to be part of anybody's system anymore.
Would you agree that it's going to give us difficulties—not that we're going to hesitate or not move towards that—in creating recommendations for a housing strategy? It will have to be much broader than saying to build more houses. Is that a fair comment?