Crime and health, two areas of concern highlighted in the commission's 2006 assessment, are being tackled through more effective collaboration with the police and the city's director of public health.

He believes this created a strong bond between the two organisations, needed for effective collaboration.

It was, in fact, one of a series of songs that the two wrote simply to test how effective collaboration between them would be.

While some initiatives hardly go beyond ceremonial contacts, others are engaged in enduring and effective collaboration.

Effective collaboration requires that a participant be freed from the burden of knowing the intent history typically imbedded within and constricting the use of parametric models.