I'll approach this in two ways. First, very often federal government funds purport to be open to non-profits, but because of the way in which a non-profit works, it can't comply with all of the requirements, so we need to try to improve that.
In terms of a specific example, I can think of times when our own organization, for example, has been looking for federal funding. I've never encountered the challenge that some charities speak about. It is very complicated for them because of the Canada Revenue Agency requirements. I do know that many charities will argue that it's challenging to become social enterprises and to generate revenue because of the ceilings that are placed on what you can earn and what you have to spend, so we need to start to more clearly understand that enterprising opportunity.
In Quebec, for example, I know that you have some very well-honed approaches to using community organizations for generating employment, and that's a model that many of us in the other parts of the country look at as a way to deploy revenues. As an example, much of the work that gets done at a community level needs to filter down to the local level. It's not all national. Many of us don't work at a national level.
There are some significant barriers. One would be the Canada Revenue Agency guidelines. Second would be the guidelines in many economic development funding bodies that say you have to clearly show your economic contribution, as opposed to the way in which the social contribution feeds into that economic contribution.