Thank you.
We urge the government to support cities to build stronger, more prosperous neighbourhoods. That's because we see that cities are drivers of change in this country and that neighbourhoods are the arenas where this change becomes tangible. Neighbourhoods really play a critical, transformative role in tackling poverty as labs where resources and creativity can come together and where ideas can move to action. Cities don't do it alone, however, and innovative partnerships with other orders of government will really spark change.
As part of our road map for change for the next five years, one of our first actions in Edmonton is the creation of a new community development corporation. It was just launched in January in Edmonton, and it integrates housing, community economic development, job training, and local business revitalization. We're pleased to say that the leadership for this comes from the Edmonton Community Foundation, which is going to incubate and lead this new organization in our community. In December, it received five years of operational funding from the City of Edmonton to kick-start its work, and a $10-million commitment to parcels of land for development from the city. We anticipate that in the next five years the new CDC will be be able to leverage diverse community investment to really stimulate economic growth in some of our poorer neighbourhoods.
On anti-racism and reconciliation, it's very clear that there's an inextricable link between racism and poverty. Although anti-racism didn't appear in your discussion paper as a key area of action, we do believe at EndPovertyEdmonton that it is fundamental to addressing poverty. In fact, we heard from thousands of Edmontonians who we engaged in our process that, if we do all the work to eliminate or end poverty that we have in our road map and we don't address changing attitudes, shifting values, and the culture in the way we talk about poverty and racism, we will not end poverty.
It's time for innovative solutions, and a couple that we have—