Well, I really agree with my colleague. I would be very cautious about having a one-size-fits-all approach, too. I think the success is at that grassroots level. For me, it's really both levels working together. We do need the support of government. Our first million came from the provincial government, and $1.6 million came from the federal government. We got that, and then we could get the corporate sector on board. And it did come on board, and we had a $1-million campaign with the corporate sector, with banks and big corporations giving us other dollars.
I find that corporations are reluctant to give you money for programming, because the optics of not being able to continue a program in the community are really bad for a corporation. They give capital dollars, and then we can generate our own funds out of the capital dollars, and that's great. Being able to set things in place in such a way that we're not penalized for generating funds, that there are some tax incentives for corporations being able to provide those dollars.... Really, if you think about it, what we're going to be able to do over time will be tremendous in being able to fund our own programs and not having to put our hand out all the time.
What's happening for us right now is that we're just paying the bills. We're just paying off the loans at this point. In a couple of years from now, we will begin to collect some dollars. Now, that's going to all go into a reserve. If I could have had $1 million more, it would have made a huge difference in being able to fund those programs sooner than I can now. I think on the one hand, while we are a success story, we could be an even more successful story if we had more of those funds early on. We're having to grapple with things like property tax. It was very difficult to get the original mortgage; we're paying a higher mortgage rate than any other business would.
When I think about recommendations, I wonder if there is a way to insure those kinds of mortgages and loans for organizations that have proven track records. All of those things would help this be a more successful story than it is, though I think we're moving in the right direction now.