I think it depends on the size of the project. What we've achieved in the Toronto Community Benefits Network is a very strong labour-community coalition. We've been supported by a number of charitable foundations in that effort to ensure that the communities are at the table, that leaders from those communities are part and parcel of crafting this plan, and that they help to bring together community members who are seeking apprenticeships or seeking to get into the white-collar job opportunities here, as well as having a conversation about the environmental impact of these projects.
How that will be created at a local level really depends community by community. From Toronto, I can't suggest what that engagement should look like in parts of Quebec or in Atlantic Canada, the Prairies, or the north. I know what we've been able to achieve. Certainly, our experience tells us that the legitimacy of this depends on building organizations on the ground where communities, particularly those who have been historically disadvantaged in terms of access to the great careers that the construction industry offers, are very much part of this conversation.
We hope that we're building a new culture in the way that we say now that we have to look at life-cycle costs when we're talking about infrastructure investment. You can't just ask what the low bid is on the bricks-and-mortar piece. You also have to ask about what the operating cost is and what the maintenance cost is. If your investment dramatically reduces those, then that's the overall review.
We say that the triple bottom line here is the social advantage that's created for different communities. We don't want to see contractors securing a bid and bringing in a workforce from way far away while unemployed young people in that area are standing at the chain-link fence looking in and wondering why they can't get a job. We have to be able to move this paradigm forward.