Yeah, thank you very much, Madam Chair. This is public knowledge. It was in the media, and so I'm going to -- I'm going to speak to it here today.
When somebody is released to the Salvation Army, sometimes -- or any shelter across the territory, sometimes that's not either the right fit for that individual or relationships have already been broken, and that is possible, or maybe that facility is already full. When someone -- when a facility operates on a first come first serve basis and has policies to that effect, for Justice to step in and say okay, this person goes there, it's very difficult when you have competing policies. And so how does Justice handle that, and do they have the funds in order to mitigate that so that people aren't falling into a -- and I'm saying people aren't, but so that we can do -- or the government, rather, can do what it needs to do to support people to find stable housing so that they can be taken out of that cycle.
There are Members sitting in this House who get approached every fall by people in their communities who literally say almost time to go back to jail; it's going to get cold out. And this -- so this is a very well known cycle of people simply using the justice system to find housing. And so what is the justice system doing in order to actually provide that housing or that link to housing to stop that cycle if people are using a very expensive system simply to find a roof over their head? Thank you, Madam Chair.
