Human Resources committee  Absolutely. When people become aware of a lot of the pressing needs, some of that shift happens because you become committed before you realize that you're committed. Exposure and experience are a part of that process. I also think it's much harder to tailor in terms of how do we do that, but if I think about the role of a federal government, largely, it can't be anything more than providing an overall will of what we as a country value and believe in.

Human Resources committee  Yes. I think there are a couple of things. First of all, I think the biggest community-based role is to actually engage with organizations who are already effectively engaging young people, because they already know how to do it. We need to take the models that exist in that way and implement them into other structures that are taking place instead of trying to make it up all over again.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm a doctoral student at the University of New Brunswick. I work with young women who are marginalized for social and economic reasons. I want to try to talk a little about something that I think is of parallel importance to this. My work is funded by the Trudeau Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, so because of that I spend a lot of time thinking about the connection between policy and practice and who leads and drives those decisions.