Absolutely. There's a gentleman very close to home. I live in Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia, which is a small community about 40 kilometres from downtown Halifax. We have a volunteer fire department, a Legion, an elementary school, and one gas station—and that's about it. But we have a really thriving community.
My son has been involved in sea cadets for years and has been an instructor and is an officer in the sea cadet program. When he moved back home while he was doing his master's degree, he wanted to continue to stay involved. There was no sea cadet corps in our neighbourhood, so he went off and helped some cadets in another community, and he would travel there.
Last year a group of people, through the Canadian Legion in particular, said, “We think we'd like to start a sea cadet corps in Mount Uniacke.” Well, it takes money to get this done. The Legion, which was made up of mainly seniors, took this on as a project and raised the necessary funds for that. I talked to my son the other day about it, and he told me that in year two they now have 50 young people. Now, 50 young people is not a lot of people in downtown Halifax, but 50 young people in a community the size of Mount Uniacke, which can't be more than 2,500 people, depending on how you measure, is a big chunk. And it only happened because some older people in the community got together and said, “We're going to make this work”, and there was some good leadership from the community and some support.
Actually, this year I'm looking forward to having for the first time a full contingent of sea cadets at a Remembrance Day ceremony. It'll be very nice.