Yes, I do, absolutely. Thank you for the question.
Co-operatives and collectives led by women have become a very important model of business that prioritizes social, economic and gender equity as a whole. The operative and democratic principles that are growing as a whole in the structures foster economic empowerment, community resilience and overall solidarity among women.
I think that when we are looking at continuing to grow these and we look at the programs that have already been created and the business models that have already been created as a whole and go back to the larger issue of the lack of funding between programs, the continuation of these programs that grow these collectives and co-operations is key.
In looking at all these models and the fact that we need to support women in these models, we definitely should be looking further into this issue. Once again, I always strongly go back to—and this is based on the programming that we've created at the YWCA—the growth of the women in entrepreneurship programs.
Within these models, no matter what the collectives or the co-operatives are, the investment by our government to continue these programs is key, and not just from a year standpoint but from a cumulative one. We've seen that the data has increased, and we know that the investment is there. What does that look like from a longer standpoint?
When we're looking at these models and the economic growth of women, it's really about what this investment will look like from a longevity standpoint.