Sure. There's a lot that could be done on the demand side. Some of my co-panellists have already articulated some of these things.
One thing that shocks me about Canada is that we don't have a sense of who is in need and where they are in need. I think there needs to be a national audit, city by city, region by region, place by place, that enumerates who is in need, what their income brackets are, and who is living in homelessness, etc. We do point-in-time counts across the country that are orchestrated nationally. We could do the same with a national audit. I wanted to say that.
Also, it strikes me that none of the programming to date, none of the policies, the national housing strategy and decisions taken by Finance—and those need to be better melded together, because they're operating in different fields at the moment—are taking a look at what your human rights obligations are and what is actually required of government. Once you do that, you end up in the place that Madame Cyr was talking about, targeted approaches.
In my opinion, any new unit that's built at this point has to go to those who are in need. It has to. This isn't just light stuff; this is a major crisis confronting this country: 235,000 people living in homelessness is an embarrassment in such a rich country. We have people living in parks. We have people who've never been homeless before who are falling into homelessness because they can't pay their rent.
I think every move that is made by Finance or by the national housing strategy folks needs to be targeted to those most in need.