COVID-19 pandemic, said Nakuset, the executive director of the Native Women’s Shelter.Shelters have been operating at partial capacity to abide by physical-distancing measures, and as a result, Nakuset said, some homeless people are left to their own devices.“I’m very much hoping that they will consider new services, that they will find money to help,” Nakuset said of the governments, adding that front-line workers must be part of the planning.However, advocates fear cuts to services are on the way because governments have run up large financial deficits with emergency spending.
The federal government has said Canada could see its deficit soar to $343 billion this year.Dolores Chew, a founding member Montreal’s South Asian Women’s Community.