Thank you, Madame Chair.
I've noticed that when you have successful initiatives, you talk about how many of them happen at various levels of government. I know, for instance, in the city of London they are taking some looks at this, but they're trying to target it--much like Madame Minna has just said--at the poorest of the poor, so to speak; that's where they're targeting it.
The Ontario Association of Food Banks had a large meeting last week in which they were trying to challenge civic governments and the provincial governments, in their own gender-based things, to do the same thing. What we're trying to do is set up linkages to aboriginal communities that are in the northern part of Ontario. I toured there this summer, and it wasn't as bad as I've seen in Africa, but it's definitely the worst that I've seen in Canada. It got all of us as a group to sit there and say if we're going to do that but it somehow bypasses these individuals, that's not so good.
I was wondering if you could tell me--when you say let's have other partners take part in this at various levels of government--and maybe through you, Madame Chair, to the rest of the committee, because some of you might know--are there successful models in Canada provincially, civically, or even in communities that work? You say here that the most successful ones start from the ground up.