Yes. We have experience with our local associations and other local agencies across the country. They're non-profit organizations run by community boards, and people with disabilities and family members often themselves. They're often contracted by provincial governments to deliver employment support services of one form or another. As I said before, that infrastructure needs a transformation because it's based on some really outmoded ideas in many cases that people with disabilities can't fully participate, that they may need a facility or day program where they can go and have some activities, etc.
There aren't effective partnerships between those community organizations and employers and employer councils. This piece keeps coming up, as I said, in the labour market panel, in the research. That community partnership, that community capacity is critical. I think it's important, as in other areas, that the federal government see that community capacity as integral to its goal to achieve an effective and inclusive labour market.
Those community organizations aren't simply instruments of the provinces. The federal government, it seems to me, needs a relationship with local communities in this country that can assist employers and those community organizations, put partnerships together to get people who have skills and opportunities into the labour market.
I think that's going to take a more targeted investment of the tools the federal government has under the labour market agreements for persons with disabilities and the labour market agreements. That means a targeted investment through those two federal instruments with some clear expectations to the provinces and territories for how those funds should be invested.