Habitat is the perfect example. The federal government launched a national partnership with Habitat for Humanity last spring, and while my department does not produce all the funding that goes into that partnership, it is through the horizontal partnerships we have established, across departments that we are able to effect those kinds of results.
Through that partnership with Habitat, our goal is to have offenders hired on to every build site that Habitat runs across the country and to see them integrated into their ReStore stores as employees. That's a really great example of how, with very little funding from the federal government, we're having a big impact on the positive possibilities for offenders to reintegrate into the community.
Our best example, I think, of costs for money is a small enterprise that was started in British Columbia a couple of years ago. It's a project for recycling asphalt shingles off homes. It's a new technology that is green. Apparently we've never been able to recycle asphalt shingles before. Now, we're using new green technology to do that, which is taking tons of waste out of the waste sites around British Columbia. But most importantly, for an investment of $2,375 per individual, we have been able to facilitate full-time employment that produces living wages for 40 women offenders in B.C.
It's a great example, and let me tell you, we spend a lot more than $2,375 per capita on individuals, but that small investment—one that came out of ESDC, which supplied the money—has had a very positive impact on those 40 women.