Yes. I think there are a couple of things. First of all, I think the biggest community-based role is to actually engage with organizations who are already effectively engaging young people, because they already know how to do it. We need to take the models that exist in that way and implement them into other structures that are taking place instead of trying to make it up all over again. That would be one example.
I think that the other really important thing at a community level is that we need to shift the understanding of what we mean when we say leadership, or how we understand who occupies a leadership position. You spoke a little bit about pay equity, which starts to lead me to gender and women in leadership. One of the big problems we have is that we don't think about leadership as something that exists in the masses. We don't believe that everybody has leadership potential.
There's the community organization base. For example, with 21 Leaders, which is a program that we deliver in New Brunswick, one of the things we do is change our selection process so that instead of it turning into a grandstanding contest about who has the most notches on some chart of accomplishments, we put people into situations where they have to practise leadership skills.
Then we can watch, for ourselves, the difference between having been given a position for legitimate reasons, or not, and the actual way in which you play a leadership role in your community. There are shifts in the way we think about leadership, and then how we go about identifying the people we need to invite to be a part of the process.
Does that help?