Human Resources committee  Thank you for asking. Blood Ties is one of the organizations that support the outreach van. Blood Ties is funded both territorially and federally. We get AIDS community action program funding, which is under federal funding. We also get hep C strategy dollars. Speaking of hep C strategy dollars, one of the things I would encourage the committee to look at is to make sure that hep C funding continues over the long term.

Human Resources committee  For each band and where they come from? Most of them are long-term Yukoners. Some of them are transient. In the summer the demand for our service does go up, and a lot of that is a more transient population. Our core population of people we serve, anywhere from 50 to 70 people a night, are Yukoners who live here year round, many of whom are of aboriginal descent and have lived in the Yukon a long time.

Human Resources committee  I think, Mr. Savage, you're making a very good point. We do see that there's growing disparity between the haves and the have-nots. We've certainly seen in our work through Blood Ties and the outreach van that the need for just basic, decent housing has continued to grow as opposed to diminish, so what we're seeing is that fewer people are able to access decent, affordable housing.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Thanks for inviting me to speak. I'm Patricia Bacon, and I'm the executive director for Blood Ties Four Directions Centre, as well as one of the contributing managers for the No Fixed Address Outreach Van. I'm hear to talk today specifically about the outreach van.