Certainly.
First, I think one thing that has been referenced already is looking at the CRA rules for charities and support for social enterprise within those, so removing some of the restrictions that the Canadian charities have that prevent them from realizing the full creative entrepreneurial potential they might otherwise have. That is partially why we created the community contribution companies that I mentioned earlier. They are able to actually buy businesses that may assist or support them in doing that. Being able to harmonize that across the country would be a significant benefit to being able to leverage different types of opportunities into the charities and non-profits for the delivery of service and service providers. I think that is one of the more important ones.
Included in that is certainly ensuring that the different types of opportunities for training for small and medium enterprises across the country are also made available to non-profits and to the charities that are actually looking at providing that or entering into that space.
Also, I've been frustrated over the years of my working within the social science field, working primarily in corrections and the work they've done there, and seeing what happened in particular with one of our foster children as she moved on, the challenges she went through. I think it's time for us to actually do something. It's time.
This is the first new space that has come along, in my experience, that looks as though it has some promise. I think we have to take some chances and actually move into that space and see what promise it does have, see what potential it does have. Give us an opportunity to help some of those people who may have a chance to do that, particularly when we have organizations such as the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres that are very anxious to look at that and do it.
Those would probably be the three areas for which I would say let's not wait until we know for sure that this is ironclad, because we'll be way behind the curve if we wait too long.
I think we have some of the best social innovators, and across our country we have some of the best programs that exist in Canada and in the world. We should give them the opportunity to do that, for instance, perhaps by issuing a requisition for proposals for a social impact bond so that you can reach out to all of those innovators and people who have ideas for programs across our country, people who will come forward, I'm sure, with a wonderful group of ideas they would be interested in putting forward to you.