Some of the discussions we've had within CISSA speak to the issue of capacity. Going back to Ms. Grewal's question around how funding gets dispersed, right now it's linked to landings, immigrant landings, by and large. But the issue is.... And we face this throughout the country—it's not just Atlantic Canada, it's the smaller centres in the prairie provinces, it's the smaller centres in British Columbia, and it's about looking at how we can take taxpayers' money and have smart money around investing in capacity-building local communities.
Our fear through the competition.... And there are mobility rights under the charter; immigrants can go anywhere. The bottom line, though—and this is the big picture around social cohesion and citizenship—is if one province is offering a higher level of service and support versus another province, what's the end result? On the one hand, competition and quality services, and we can compete with one another, but, ultimately, what's the end result in that process? Is that process going to get us to our collective vision, nation-building of Canadian citizenship?
That's one of the issues we've been grappling with, that there is tremendous innovation going on with the agencies across the country, but again, it's about how we find smart money to enhance what we're doing well, what's working well, create opportunities.
As Reza pointed out, we've only been in existence seven months, but we're already seeing the impact of our work: the ability to come together nationally to look at promising practices, look at things that are working, and so forth. That's the benefit we're seeing in this regard.
This is one of the areas we're seeing. I'm not sure if my colleague from Atlantic Canada--