First of all, I think government has the opportunity to provide funding to these underfunded organizations that already do this really great work. For example, the Canadian Women Voters Congress unfortunately disbanded in November, so Equal Voice has committed to taking up those opportunities of having boot camp training, three days when women can come together and explore different issues and actually attempt to run their own campaign and talk about what that looks like and take on questions from the media, which is really great.
I'll use an example from Switzerland, actually. It created a women-to-women mentorship program in 1999 to reach more young women, to create networks, because we know that women, compared to men, have fewer opportunities in terms of networking with political and business communities that often financially support candidates who are running for office. In five years, that program had 250 people go through it, and the mentees said it increased their interest in politics, it brought in their network, it increased their self-confidence in public speaking, and provided better help with their career and future planning. Many will now go on to run for political office.