Thank you.
I think that's a very good question. And I do appreciate that the Conservative government needs to look at its own programs. I would like to applaud the government for rolling out the initiative in Quebec and to the research components.
I also appreciate that the social economy has not been a concept well understood outside of Quebec and that the government and the different departments—Johanne Mennie's shop—need to understand what that means. But as we've heard from Ms. Mennie, tremendous research has been done to demonstrate now that the social economy is an investment, that it works, and that it's in multiple sectors and multiple countries. So given that the research has gone forward, I would suggest that the government now has an opportunity to show leadership and to build on the evidence from Ms. Mennie's shop by reversing the decision to roll up the social economy. I also appreciate there was a need to better understand it and perhaps to better brand it as a Conservative initiative.
But I would applaud Ms. Mennie's shop, because we now have solid empirical evidence that it works.