Co-op Atlantic is successful. We've been around for 85 years. I've been working there for more than 25 now, dealing a lot with agriculture and development. I've dealt a lot with agricultural producer cooperatives.
It's not the big ones that are the concern, although they do have their own issues. It's the small cooperatives. It's the blueberry cooperative. It's the hay cooperative. It's the carrot cooperatives. It's the farmers who are trying to get together to create cooperatives to find niche markets in Atlantic Canada. I believe that's the opportunity for the federal government to work with these groups, through the CEDIFs, through the economic development, through ACOA. It's not the big guys. It's trying to put some seed money into these small cooperatives to strengthen rural communities in Atlantic Canada.
I deal a lot with developing new membership in Co-op Atlantic, so we can grow our total business, because we're a supplier to the small cooperatives. Around Atlantic Canada, in these rural communities, everybody is pulling out, so communities or members are getting together. They're forming cooperatives to provide senior housing, to provide a grocery store, or to provide maybe a small farm supply business within their community. It's a great opportunity to stimulate the rural economy of Atlantic Canada, by developing policies to capitalize those co-ops.