I think there's another issue that rarely gets mentioned, and that's the capacity of organizations to deal with their rank-and-file membership. While we're three, there are many smaller organizations throughout the region.
We always complain about the lack of capacity. We operate, basically, from hand to mouth. We don't have the ability, either human or financial, to get out and do the information and educational work that has to be done. So we're really limited. That's why things take so long. They're spread out in a vast rural area.
It takes some hand-holding, frankly, to get these concepts and ideas across so people understand them. At recent meetings we've had, both with federal and provincial representatives, we continued to ask for more input from both those levels of government, as well as financially toward the organizations, to help us to do a much better job in serving our members.