Mr. Speaker, I am learning to speak French, but I have difficulty answering in that language.
I would suspect that the co-operative is no different than any other business venture. It depends on the people who are involved in the management of the co-operative. It is obviously involved with the business acumen and experience that people have as to how good the co-operative is itself. Some co-operatives do not succeed. In some cases it is probably because of undercapitalization, underfinancing. That is usually the reason most businesses fail regardless of whether they are a co-operative movement or in the private sector.
I said initially in my opening comments that in our particular case co-operatives are a feel of the communities. The communities and the people develop the co-operatives. It depends on the motivation of those individuals as to how successful those enterprises are going to be.
I can honestly say that in western Canada the co-operative movement was very successful because people helped people work with people. It was a grassroots movement. The profits that came from the development of that business were put back into the business. I would suspect it is a bit of a culture that came from that particular co-operative movement and perhaps the opportunity to have better capitalization when they went into the enterprise in the first place.
That would be my opinion. There are any number of reasons why some are good and some are not good.