It's always a fine line in these kinds of things when you pull together groups of people or stakeholders. If you're setting the agenda and telling everybody what that agenda is going to be, that has a certain impact on the outcomes. I can tell you that we run a federation at CAA, and it's a lot like the Canadian federation, in that as soon as we try to set that agenda or push agenda items on everybody, we end up in trouble. So we end up somewhere between facilitator and enabler in our day-to-day practice.
I think what we would say is that in this space, if there were a way to structure somewhere in that facilitation or enabling role, or maybe even it's a third party that organizes it with everybody at the table so there's no sense of the power relationship there on the ground.... Because obviously the federal government has the most money to put on the table, there's a natural likelihood that people may feel like they should defer to the federal government, and that may or may not be the right approach.
One way or the other, there is absolutely a value in sharing best practices. Really, I think the question is about—and I think we at CAA think this—who should organize it, who should set that agenda, and even how it should be funded. As long as those things are done in a collaborative way in some fashion, then to us there's value in that kind of thing.