Finance committee  I agree with Adam, but I'd also like to say that many of the groups find their own niche. It may look like there's a lot of overlap, but they actually do find their own little specific field that's important. As the many educators in the room can attest to, every classroom is d

Finance committee  Yes. We found the same thing as Gary's team. Ever since the financial literacy task force, we have funders coming to us and saying, “What can you do to help us help Canadians?” We think that's really critical. The impact of the task force and moving forward on the recommendatio

Finance committee  Very quickly, our primary concern is about low literacy. Those are the groups for whom accessing information on financial literacy is extremely difficult. Even for those of us with university degrees, it's difficult to read the back of a visa statement, but people with low litera

Finance committee  Yes. I'd like to say that I understand where you're coming from with that question. If we could flip a switch and all the task force recommendations could pass in the first day, that would be fantastic. I think the way we're looking at it now is that we first need to establish t

Finance committee  I would just like to say that, as Gary does, we think it's a critical role to have because there is a lot of really great work going out from the literacy practitioner working on the ground in northern, eastern, or central Canada. We need to have someone who can unite us, someone

Finance committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am pleased to represent ABC Life Literacy Canada in response to the request from the Standing Committee on Finance to address Bill C-28, An Act to amend the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act an