Through the chair, thank you for the question.
Durham region started to receive funding for our LIP in 2009. That money has been leveraged to bring on board other partners who make financial contributions. When I say that we leverage funding in the community, I mean we host an event into which we bring three or four partners. One partner pays for the venue, and another partner pays for catering, let's say, and another partner pays for the printing of the brochure. That return on investment that CIC has made is quite high. So CIC has invested...let's just say it has paid the staff to make this happen, but that staff in turn has turned around and mobilized all of these people to, one, share the vision of collective responsibility, and two, actually throw some money at it and say, “Okay, how do we do a learning event or an information sharing event? How can I contribute?”
Leveraging dollars in the community for our mutual event is a huge return on investment for CIC, as far as I can see. We take those primarily staffing dollars, to be frank, and we turn them into a lot of deliverables that change how the community feels about newcomers and what its responsibility is.