I don't know whether we can borrow from the infrastructure models that have been used federally, provincially, and locally for decades in terms of the one-third sharing, but certainly for the local governments, and in my experience as a mayor, we were also very concerned about crime, crime reduction, and recidivism. As you are probably aware, the local government is much closer to the people than we tend to be. There were always a lot of comments with respect to that.
I think being able to engage the local community in a tripartite model, perhaps similar to the infrastructure model, is a workable model. I also think that what we did with what we called BC Ideas, which is the Ashoka model, is important.
At Ashoka, they've been involved in social innovation and crowdsourcing for over two decades. They're the real leaders in that. With the G-8 summit, I believe in Seoul, they were asked to look at using their Changemakers model to look at what might be the outcome. I believe one of the legacies of that was over a billion dollars to developing countries and children in poverty in developing countries. That came out of an Ashoka model. It's a well-experienced model and a well-accepted model, and I think that also adds to.... There are a lot of parts of our province that are unincorporated, and I think we also need to be able to make these opportunities available to them.
I'm not sure that I'm getting at exactly the answer you want, but certainly there is a role for all levels of government. There's also an important role for service providers and for financial....
When I created the Social Innovation Council, I put three chairs in charge of it, which was against my better judgment in terms of looking at organizational models. One chair was from service providers. One was from government. The third was from the business community. They provided that type of balance and ensured there was that type of equity as they went forward. I think that was an important balance to put in place to ensure that we actually were able to come to some type of agreement. Again, I think that reflects the conversations we've had with the opposition in Victoria as well.