Finance committee  It's a great question. On your last question, I mentioned before that we have unified, so we are now all one. We are looking at best practices that go on in each province and sharing them across the country. We're getting rid of our duplication. We have formed alliances with th

Finance committee  I think that if they put together an action plan done collaboratively with the provinces, it would go a long way and set the vision for the future.

Finance committee  We're a not-for-profit.

Finance committee  We raise all of our money through door-to-door donations, Jump Rope for Heart, corporate partnerships, major gifts, and direct mail. We work very hard on building corporate relationships. In 2011 we unified into one foundation across the country to enable better partnerships with

Finance committee  When we get into the prevention business, that's always the debate we're faced with: whether we spend a dollar now to save it over the long term. We believe in the prevention area for dementia. When we see those numbers, we can do nothing but make the choice to try to prevent the

Finance committee  On this program, no, because the suite of initiatives we would be bringing to the communities to pick and to massage, to make it work for their needs and their desires would be slightly different for everyone. I can tell you that when you get into the programs we have today, su

Finance committee  I have two answers for that. First, we're partnering with the Alzheimer Society on this prevention initiative, which is significant. They're the biggest and they're focused on Alzheimer's. We're focused on vascular dementia. Those two universes cover most of it, so you're going

Finance committee  Thank you, I would love to. The linkage between dementia and vascular disease is undisputed. In fact, 80% of dementia is vascular related. The Heart and Stroke Foundation has been working in the vascular area ever since we started with cholesterol, hypertension. What we're doi

Finance committee  I'm going to speak specifically to this initiative, which is important for the first nations and for all those groups. We want to work with the federal government. They have invested significant dollars there. We think that in partnership we can help engage the communities that

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. The Heart and Stroke Foundation is a national volunteer-based charity led and supported by more than 140,000 volunteers and close to two million donors. The aim of the foundation is to create healthy lives free of heart disease and st