In Nova Scotia currently, women's centres have been working with women on income assistance to improve social assistance policy. A huge piece of work has been done, and a lot of that work has been bringing women from 11 communities around the province to the table to talk about their experiences on social assistance and to make recommendations to government.
We are now at the point where we want to engage with government in developing a poverty reduction strategy with the Nova Scotia government. We will not be able to do that. In discussions with our program officer about what we could do next, she has said that work has to come to an end because we will not be able to do it, since it will not be fundable.
Despite the fact that we are this close, have made such good headway, and our conversations and relationship with the Nova Scotia government are very strong, we just won't have the funding to maintain that really important network of women who are living in poverty. We can't do that. There's no other source to do that.