Absolutely. We started under a Manitoba government program. We have a Manitoba act, actually. We have The Community Renewal Act that was adopted by our NDP government previous to the current government. That act enables 13 organizations funded by the Province of Manitoba to operate in designated areas. You can read the statistics on, for example, three of my neighbourhoods that fall within the federal riding of Winnipeg Centre. That is practically the poorest area in Canada. A corner of it starts with the R2W postal code. That is the poorest place in Canada.
So what do you do? You don't approach this simply through charitable acts such as opening up a soup kitchen. In times of crisis, that is great, but how do you follow the life of a young man or woman who starts in one of our kindergartens, follows through to junior high, and goes to the high school? How do you make sure that person graduates?
Most of our schools—and this is very important—are trying to maximize their instructional dollars. That leaves a whole bunch of extra supportive activities and extracurricular activities that my agency provides. I hire and train people who live in the area, who are living below the low poverty line or at the poverty line, and I send them to school, for example, to learn how to read. There's a program called read-assist for kids. We follow those kids, but not statistically, because, again—and Jino said this as well—there is a whole lot of focus on statistics, on reports, and on red tape. That really undermines and does not give any consideration to the dignity of the individual.