We've had an excellent response. We've had unbelievable outcomes from this project. I guess that's why I'm so concerned about the advocacy issue, because if we're not going to be doing advocacy, we're stuck with what we have. That means that policies aren't going to change in the future and the systemic changes that are needed to improve the lives of low-income women are not going to be made through services. They're going to be made through changes in policy and structures within our system. For example, after the initial research we did, which showed that poverty was hazardous to women's health, the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy now does all their work with a gender analysis, so now people delivering health services can take a look at those reports and know that this is an issue that affects women and men very differently. So even in the allocation of our scarce health funding there are opportunities.
We've had changes in housing policy because of the housing report we did. Taking women along when one lobbies policy-makers and bureaucrats and having them tell their stories makes a huge difference. It's way different from having people like all of us, whom I consider to be people of privilege, putting forth their suggestions. First, there is somebody who has a story to tell and can tell it in a manner that puts reality on the situation.