I'll take a few minutes and then I will let Jane continue.
We both come from rural communities. I live on a hundred acres outside a small hamlet called Feversham. It is a farming community, and 20 years ago it had no services within about an hour's drive. It was part of a region that took an hour to cross, top to bottom and side to side, that in fact had no services. It was a large rural region without a city or a town within it.
Through a very active community process that involved all sectors of the community, we not only developed child care options, we developed quality child care options, some of those being centre-based in communities as small as 300 children, which, when working in partnership and in an integrated way with other services in the community, have served those families and children very well and have been there for over 20 years. Not only are they sustainable; they continue to grow and to focus on the changing needs of families and children in their communities and the surrounding area.
Although that probably seldom happens across Canada, there certainly are examples in other provinces and territories as well.
I'll let Jane say a few things about her community as well.