I don't think we have seen a limit to the role that social enterprise can play in supporting community needs. Being in Vancouver, we have a very, very strong social enterprise sector that is serving the very tough employment needs in the downtown eastside, one of Canada's poorest communities. We see groups like EMBERS, which is a day labour company, putting to work each day more than a hundred people with barriers. We see companies like The Cleaning Solution, where 70% of their employees are people with ongoing mental health issues.
As we go to rural communities like Haida Gwaii, we see things like the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society, which is running North American-based university programs, in a very rural community, in a microenterprise. The students come there. They then have the capacity to bring in economic development to that community as well as employ the local elders and cultural leaders in the community.
So we see it in rural communities in economic development. We see it in employment. But we also see it in arts and culture. When you go to looking at how we involve the immigrant communities, and the francophone communities outside of Quebec, into a community, social enterprise is not looking at a business to return profits; they're looking at a business model to solve a problem or to create an opportunity. I don't think we've seen a limit to the types of businesses or the types of issues.