Thank you.
Yes, through our HR department we provide leadership training both on the employee side and the democratic side.
We like to think of our organization as two distinct groups. We have the operations people, who need to be at the top of the game. We have to have the best people running our cooperatives. On the governance side we have to have those individuals.
Of course we belong to CCA and our provincial organizations that support things like the co-op chairs at universities, etc. So we're developing a whole basis of leadership.
I think where we get frustrated the most is sometimes with the lack of knowledge of the cooperative model in the greater workplace.
Through co-op chairs at universities, through education through CCA, and through our own education programs at our grassroots level, we continue to develop that democratic understanding.