It would be fundamentally fruitful. Currently the funding structure at Canadian Heritage allows for programs where communities reach out to other communities, if I'm getting it right. The reality is we're not there at the point where communities are okay within themselves to start reaching out and building bridges with other communities. There are so many communities that still require capacity building, and that type of multicultural funding—as Ms. Go said, the type of funding that the Colour of Poverty campaign received—led to some really critical work on those issues. The loss of that funding has had real impact on the ability of those communities to have some of the difficult conversations we've talked about here.
On September 25th, 2017. See this statement in context.