I think there will always be an attraction to the social service agency of social impact bonds, and that attraction is guaranteed funding for a certain number of years.
What we've tried to do in our province is to guarantee three-years of funding for social enterprises, but social service delivery agencies generally have an annual budget. I think from that point of view, that's the attraction.
One of the great difficulties, I think, in ascribing too much to social impact bonds is that many of the problems that your committee is dealing with are quite complex and interrelated. If you take unemployment—we were discussing this earlier—it is very complicated and multi-faceted. It's a function of housing, education, child care, addictions, and mental health issues, and trying to work these into one social impact bond is going to be almost impossible, whereas different arms of government and social service agencies could cooperate across the board to try to make an impact. That would be very difficult to replicate in a social impact bond.