One of the biggest challenges is that over the last 15 years or so there has been more fragmentation in terms of the programs. So a lot of the funding mechanisms are now project based; the partners and communities are sometimes competing against each other in order to do program delivery for the same client group. We really believe there's a whole community approach at the local level, the pan-regional level, the pan-Canadian level, and for our member institutions, because we work so much in the international development domain, at the world level.
Our report is one example of how we do the information sharing between and amongst the colleges in Canada. We also work with the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics, and we have a Canada-European Union meeting happening next week looking at some of that common information. But our system misses some of those collaborative meetings that used to happen between municipalities, the federal government, the provinces, the social service agencies, and the colleges in terms of alleviating poverty in particular.