Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  I'd have to say yes. I think there will be a tremendous amount for all of us to learn at the Quebec summit. There will be speakers from all over Canada and all around the world on different aspects. I find, doing the international work that I do, that having an international pe

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  I think the 1993 decision was inevitable, good or bad. It was very clear post-1982 that the provinces were going to insist on cooperative housing programs, just like health, as being a provincial jurisdiction. It would be a self-serving and easy thing for me to say that I think y

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  I agree with you 100%.

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  You kind of had me at the first sentence, actually. Yes, absolutely, very much so. We would like to see if we can change the scale of our sector. If you look at some of the non-profit housing providers with multiple portfolios in different places, they're looking at some very d

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  Again, I would echo those remarks. There is room for all kinds of different models of enterprise. There are the traditional ones we know—small and large businesses. But it has become apparent to me, with the amount of interest in cooperatives around the table here today, together

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  Could I add a remark to that, Mr. Chair, very quickly?

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  To give you a little perspective, Ms. Gallant, no housing co-ops, for example, are federally incorporated. We're all incorporated under provincial legislation. An enormous number of the cooperative enterprises in the country are incorporated provincially because they don't do ext

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  It's a much lesser extent. We don't have a $10 billion balance sheet. But we do provide assistance to different projects. We tend to keep our money within the housing sector. On the issue of promotion, I don't have a silver bullet either, but this year has certainly helped. Havi