Mr. Speaker, my colleague and I share the same concern about homelessness and addiction in rural areas.
There is a problem in my riding of Shefford. There is a federal program that helps people experiencing homelessness called reaching home. Although Granby is a rather large municipality, it is still considered a rural community and not a designated community. As a result, it is not getting all the funding it should be getting to work on this important issue.
Is it not time to broaden and review this definition and acknowledge that people experiencing homelessness are no longer just in big cities, but that they are on the move and that the face of homelessness has changed?