Maybe I'll start with an example.
Shelter Movers received a level of funding from the federal government a few years ago to establish and scale a promising practice. The federal government viewed Shelter Movers as an innovative approach to responding to gender-based violence, and to preventing it. We received some funding to expand and establish chapters across the prairie provinces—Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Over a three-year period, we were able to build relationships with local shelters, police and law enforcement, then begin receiving survivors and getting them to a safe place.
Shelter Movers views the federal government's role as one that identifies these promising practices, supports promising and innovative scaling approaches, and takes a community-specific approach in its analysis to determine where the gaps are so that services available in one part of the country are available across the country, where appropriate.