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Human Resources committee Thank you very much for having me this morning. It's a pleasure to present to you, and I hope my words very much complement the comments of those who have preceded me. There are four things in particular I would like to try to address this morning and they are as follows: the p
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle
Human Resources committee To your question, I think that can be a problem. I use the reality of trying to sometimes speak to different stakeholders. You have stakeholder A, who expects you to follow certain practices, and stakeholder B, who expects you to follow mostly similar ones, but they have their ow
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle
Human Resources committee Thank you for the question. I think it's a critical one, and it's obviously fraught with multi-level issues. Ultimately, the federal government has the ability to say this is how we want to spend the money.
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle
Human Resources committee As an example, through the current HPS program, just as you did with housing first, you could simply say that this amount of it needs to go to maintain some kind of shelter system. In my mind, that would be the simplest. You could also go the direct route, and I know other people
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle
Human Resources committee I'm not going to say I have the answer, but I know that elsewhere the advanced economy countries have come up with solutions. Unfortunately, what we have done in Canada so often is to try to address the problem with programs like limited dividend partnerships and the section 56.1
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle
Human Resources committee You know, I think I came here mostly wanting to talk about housing and my experience in housing, and I think I addressed most of that. I think the only thing that I would leave with you is that homelessness is not a defect. It is not a permanent condition. It is something that we
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle
Human Resources committee That's actually a significant question, because I think it was part of the new HPS round that transitional housing could not be supported. I think the important thing about transitional housing is that it doesn't need to be there for everybody, but there are definitely certain
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle
Human Resources committee In terms of the federal programs? No.
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle
Human Resources committee I'll use as an example the fact that health services are not funded as part of the HPS. They're time limited to two years. I think my colleague spoke to the whole issue of time. There is a journey a person goes through in recovery, and it isn't necessarily two years.
March 10th, 2017Committee meeting
Alan Whittle