Finance committee  It is their retirement, but this is the problem. It's the same force that puts a person into the position of putting off making their will. It's the same thing that has them putting off putting their succession plan in place for their business. It's an emotional thing, because th

Finance committee  Sure, I will. The federal co-op development initiative is a program that was renewed in 2009. It needs to be expanded from its current $4 million per year and made permanent. There's much more demand for the program than can be met. In terms of the third point, which is the new

Finance committee  Thank you for inviting us to appear before you. Just very quickly, there are about 350 worker co-ops across Canada, and about two-thirds of those are in Quebec. Our organization, the Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation, is a national association. It started about 20 years ag