Thank you, Mr. Speaker, honourable Members. Mr. Speaker, in June of this year I asked the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment to meet with the emergency shelter operators to discuss the critical situation they were facing. He said he would be most pleased to meet and thought it would be very worthwhile. Mr. Speaker, it's now the middle of October and no meeting has yet taken place.

Mr. Speaker, shelters are overflowing, children are being put into an already overburdened foster care system, charitable agencies are spending their own money to provide government services and winter is coming. What is it going to take to get some action to make sure someone doesn't die on the streets this year? Thank you.