We pleaded with the committee to include an extremely important economic component in the last Roadmap, one that reflected the cooperative model, among other things. This is a tool that has always been used in the minority communities. In our view, it was important to get the cooperative movement involved so that it could provide a different vision. Individual private entrepreneurship is different from the collective version. Cooperative development expertise can be found in the cooperative movement itself.
On November 29th, 2011. See this statement in context.