Finance committee  This is what my comments were focused on. This is the most dire part of the system, where people are literally on the edge. As inflation moves up, we can expect people to fall into arrears, and then that becomes a very difficult precipice to be on. You end up at motels that are e

Finance committee  When people are pushed out of their homes, depending on their own circumstances.... There's not one, single answer to that. People go to friends and family. They have their social safety net, which is social capital. Increasingly, we are seeing people who are now making use of sh

Finance committee  I'm sorry. It was crackly. Was that for me?

Finance committee  Government is required, but there are opportunities for it to be what we have already in place, like privately owned rooming houses. RGI, by definition, is a subsidy provided by government, so there has to be involvement. We also need to be mindful of protecting what is already

Finance committee  Thank you for the invitation to present here today. I am speaking to you from Toronto, which is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit and is the traditional territory of many other nations. My name is Elizabeth McIsaac. I'm the president of Maytree. We're a

Finance committee  I would just add that this is exactly the kind of systemic claim that the proposed process would allow in an investigation by the housing advocate. What we haven't talked about is what kinds of claims would be heard. The model that's been developed is not intended for individual

Finance committee  I feel that it would be a missed opportunity. There was a tremendous amount of work done over the last two years in bringing forward and creating a model that is uniquely Canadian. We don't see this model exactly in other countries. We have taken care to work with government to c

Finance committee  Thank you, and good evening. My name is Elizabeth McIsaac. I'm the president of Maytree, a private charitable foundation in Toronto focused on human rights and poverty. I want to thank you for the opportunity to appear before this committee to provide recommendations for amendm