Again, there are a lot of wonderful groups in this country that do work when it comes to creating such a program.
I had the perfect example in my riding, a group called la Fondation des petits déjeuners de la Péninsule acadienne. This group went from zero and raised $1.3 million in the last five years to give money to schools. They help 15 out of 21 schools to provide meals to 5,000 children every year. This group is all volunteers. These volunteers are also parents, parents who know what families are going through. It's when you talk to those people, to teachers at school and to the school board that you understand clearly how important this is and how they need help to provide these kids with a better future and to help them achieve their goals.
There are a lot of stakeholders in the country. You will hear from them, I think, right after me. What they did as a consultation process, in making the study and everything that went on from parents to children.... It's wonderful work. We need to engage them. This is why we need them to build this framework. It is not for the government to say what this framework needs to have in it. It's from those stakeholders, those groups, the people who are on the ground seven days a week, taking care of those children and those families.
I commend them for all their great work. Of course, I learned a lot through that process, going to meetings with them and making sure that my bill reflects what they need for kids in the future.