I'm intrigued as well, Leah, with your suggestion that one of the things we need--and we haven't heard this before--is a new generation of leadership coming up that's not so much on the MBA track but the social justice track. I live and breathe social justice and left-wing politics at my house, but all my kids seem to be interested in are careers that will pay them big bucks. It concerns me deeply.
Lillian, I started out running a soup kitchen in the basement of a church back in the early 1980s during the then recession. Out of that, what we did was have forums every three or four months. We would bring in community members and young people to talk about poverty, including why there is poverty, the underpinnings, the dynamic, and everything. Out of that were developed some alternative approaches to creating work.
Quebec is a wonderful example of some real creativity. The social economy that's developing in Quebec should be studied by everybody. Out of some of the work.... I'll take some small credit for a program at our university in Sault Ste. Marie now, which is training young people, particularly those from aboriginal communities, in community, economic, and social development; again, it's studying the dynamic and all of that.
Is this something that you've thought about as well, Leah? Getting young people into those hands-on types of work and then having them.... Anyway, I think you know.