Finance committee  The answer is yes, we do have a business plan. The investment we're looking for is modest support to help do a feasibility assessment to assess the market environment as to whether it will support this. Our outcomes here are: (a) to help Canadian companies be more competitive aro

Finance committee  Oh—

Finance committee  Sure—

Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  Absolutely—

Finance committee  Sorry: what we're looking for is $75,000 to do the feasibility assessment. This actually won't target students per se. Our customer base, we believe, will be vice-presidents of HR and—

Finance committee  Okay.

Finance committee  That's great.

Finance committee  They're both interdependent and independent questions. First and foremost, our organization has a tendency to serve a lot of kids who come to us with multiple risk factors. These are kids who are going to be living in poverty and are transient. They may be witnessing family viole

Finance committee  Absolutely: the cost benefit is incredible.

Finance committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for the opportunity to share our thoughts with you today. As part of a vibrant non-profit sector that represents 11.1% of Canada's workforce and whose $106 billion in economic activity counts for 7.1% of GDP, Big Brothers Big Sisters is an on-the

Finance committee  I think the reaction would be that it wouldn't be overly popular to suggest that there's one element of the voluntary sector that is more important than others. If you just want an honest, gut feel, I think there would be a lot of organizations who would say, we understand and re

Finance committee  Sorry, can you just rephrase that?

Finance committee  If there is an opportunity to have greater recognition of the cash investments, that's fantastic. But to be honest with you, I'm not qualified to throw an opinion on that one.

Finance committee  Yes, I agree. I think the first step is around civic engagement and how kids understand the role of their coaches as volunteers and understand that some of the people with whom they interact, their mentors, are volunteers playing a role in their community, and that they need supp