I'd like to stress that many services are already provided by social service agencies. Government provides the money. Government does provide direction.
In some of these areas there's quite a bit of creativity. If you look at the main areas where social impact bonds have been established, there's recidivism among offenders, and homelessness, children, and the employed. These are the main ones. We'll look at two of them.
With children, there's an awful lot going on looking at best practice for reducing the number of children in care. It's a huge issue in Manitoba. We have 10,400 kids in care, and most of them are aboriginal. That number's just gone up from 10,000 to 10,400. We're looking at what has worked elsewhere in reducing the number of children in care and at what has worked in Manitoba, because in some parts of Manitoba the rates are going down. There is a willingness to experiment and to look at these programs. These are sometimes arms of government, but often they're social service agencies.
The same thing happens with offenders. The John Howard and Elizabeth Fry societies have all kinds of programs to try to reduce recidivism. My own feeling is that before we change to something radically different and experimental and very hard to implement, look at what's happening already in these agencies and try to adapt to best practices.