It's certainly an area that does need a lot more work. I thank you for your response.
In your remarks as well, you seem to emphasize that we need a statutory framework dealing with crime prevention or whether it's social finance. From my own point of view, I guess I'm asking you specifically, what do you mean in that regard?
My concern with social finance is this. I think it certainly has some potential, but my concern is that if there's a great dependency on social finance, it's going to mean a patchwork quilt of programming across the country.
There will be some areas where investors are willing to invest, and there will be other areas, maybe in the north or some of the smaller provinces, where there will not be that willingness to invest. There could be a mix of programs: the crime prevention programs that are funded federally; the policing, federal, provincial, and municipal; and social finance.
What are your thoughts?