Coordinator's Note: The word "time" was also used frequently during interviews. It was seen as a key resource that was needed to fulfill community, family, personal, social and environmental goals.

MAIN POINTS
(from interviews)

1. Time to dream, create, innovate, plan for the future,
to think of different ways of living

2. Time to get involved in politics; and community problem-solving

3. Time for healthy spirituality

4. Time to practice and learn culture; more art, music and fun

5. Time to be with those we love

6. Time for healing; caring for our health; to be physically active

7. Time to organize for equality

8. Time to build trust between people and get to know
our neighbors and community

9. Time to save the environment

Time - Quotes

It's about time; all of it comes down to time. There is not enough time to work in the ways we are expected to work, especially when you are working at minimum wage or just above minimum wage. When you are the primary caregiver as well as trying to support your family, there is just not enough time. So when you eliminate that intense pressure to work so hard, for so little, it would free up some time and you could explore what you have to bring to your culture, to spiritual life, to family. -Naomi

What I would want is more time. Less time spent on trying to make money, on going to school while raising two kids-there isn't enough time to do all that. -Meshum

You'd certainly have more time with a GLI. You would see a lot more organizing taking place. Time is a big factor whether a woman works or not. Both parents are tired and want a break but the man might feel more entitled to a break because he was out working [for pay]. -Jennifer

Because of technology, everything is happening much faster. But we haven't saved any time. A GLI would free up time to be able to do community problem-solving.   -Faith

[A GLI would mean] more time for culture, especially for people new to Canada, and more time for everyone to learn about different cultures. -Anna

If you are in a rush, your mind is only on working and income and you forget everything else. No time and no breaks mean no time for culture. -Olga

There is no vacation from poverty. But a GLI would give people a vacation from poverty. -Donna

If you have GLI and can put in fewer hours working, you can put more hours into having your garden and canning your food, because all that takes time and energy. People work now and they go buy fast food and it has no nutrition in it. Go into most grocery stores, and you can hardly buy real food to put together an authentic real-food meal. It all comes pre-prepared for these people who don't have the time because they are working.   Everything is energy; if you want food, which is energy, then you have to put energy into raising it. And if you're putting energy into making a living and trying to find a way to pay your way, you can't have energy for gardens and canning and staying home making meals from scratch, which takes 2 or 3 hours and not 5 minutes in the microwave. You don't have the energy to cook when you get home. People put themselves under great stress to try to do everything and take care of their health, and then it manifests itself physically and we end up in surgeries with cancer and with every kind of ailment you can imagine. The pendulum has to start swinging back to agriculture; we have to start providing people with food close to where they live. I'd love to see a project where every boulevard is filled with fruit trees and nut trees and community gardens. -Kathy

If you have more time, you can have a better quality of food, not all geared toward fast food. Why fast food? Because I can stop there on the way home from work.   If I had more time, I'd go to the farmers' market instead. I have no time for gardening. -Meshum

I've been involved in two community gardens. I put a lot of time in that, but once I started working full-time, the time got less and less and less, and pretty soon I had to give it up, which I really didn't want to do because I loved doing it. I could work with people I enjoyed. I got to learn a lot. -Debie