Interestingly, to go back to the Special Senate Committee on Aging, one of the things we saw and we made some recommendations on was the fact that there were a whole lot of things that didn't get recognized. One of the really big problems....
I remember being in Vancouver when this came up. They had a whole bunch of volunteers, but they weren't all in the centre, which was in downtown Vancouver. The volunteers came from all over the greater Vancouver area. They were losing the volunteers because of the exorbitant price of parking in downtown Vancouver, the availability of public transit to get them there, and actually, for many of them, even the cost of public transit.
There was the recommendation and the thought that government needs to think creatively and outside the box...and measuring how this is done is the problem. It will sound like a good idea, but the devil is in the details.
So recognizing volunteers for what they do, and allowing them some relief of some sort, such as a pass for public transit—