Thank you.
My apologies, right off the bat. I can't give you specific examples now. That's a bit outside the council's mandate.
As I mentioned in the brief, the social economy initiatives are sort of multi-faceted because they allow for community development to meet community needs. They are not driven by profit motives or the objectives of some other organization outside that community.
The other really important thing that's closely linked to employability is that many of those projects then allow for on-the-job training--for example, for those who have been unemployed for long periods of time, those who are just getting back into the labour force after being out for a while, and people who are on welfare. It gives them an opportunity to contribute to those community economic development activities while at the same time increasing their own ability to continue working and get other jobs to build their skills and their individual employability.
So it has societal, community, and individual benefits.