Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  There aren't the same programs there, and Dianne will have a better understanding and can explain that better. But for us on the island, you have to appreciate that in the smaller communities it's not young people who are living there. Young people are no longer living in the sma

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  Thank you. I can speak only of the island right now, but I can tell you from the experience of our most recent start-up, which is a farmers' market—which are becoming popular today because of the local produce and the healthier eating—it was a little difficult getting it going,

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. I appear before you today on behalf of the Prince Edward Island Co-operative Council, representing 108 island cooperatives and their 80,000 members. Fully 60% of the population of Prince Edward Island belongs to a cooperative. On Prin