New social enterprises have been springing up every day in Canada. One that got my attention was St. John’s Bakery in downtown Toronto, run by the St. John Mission. The bakery takes volunteers from the streets and teaches them valuable skills in order for them to give back to the community. One touching story from the Globe and Mail

was about a man named Gordon Brown (left) who spent 16 years as a crack cocaine addict on the street and was taken in by the bakery. He now is the lead baker of the company, a cooking teacher for kids, and a speaker for United Way, a charity focused on the well being of kids and seniors

In class we defined what social entrepreneurship as a business seeking a desired social change, but in Canada, there is still no legal definition as to what a social enterprise actually is. This dark area of legality is preventing businesses to form business-charity hybrids; an impediment to the betterment of society. I say that the Canadian government needs to come up with a legal definition if it does not want to be behind other countries in social entrepreneurship.

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