Industry committee  Is your concern with some of the organizations that we work with in delivering, with other organizations that we might “partner” with in doing our humanitarian work? Is that the concept that you're expressing?

Industry committee  Who are governed, usually provincially, by other legislation.

Industry committee  I don't see that this legislation will really have any effect on any relationship such as that. I mean, unless I'm misunderstanding you, I don't feel a concern around your question.

Industry committee  I think our position is in our submission.

Industry committee  We think it's time to look ahead.

Industry committee  I would just like to comment. I think the act will promote stronger governance through self-regulation, and getting the government regulation out of it. I think the overall operation of the act will be to encourage strong governance within not-for-profit corporations.

Industry committee  I'm not sure that it's something you could probably build into the statute itself. I think it may be more a matter of the overall administration through the ministry, part of perhaps the educational component. I don't think you can put in mandatory mediation. If I had to sit down

Industry committee  We've lived with it for quite a while and we've adjusted. I certainly wouldn't say it doesn't work, but I think some of the things I identified in my brief are things that would work, or certainly would work better. Even electronic telecommunications--I think that's one of the th

Industry committee  Perhaps I can first touch on the consultation issue. Industry Canada did run a very extensive consultation process, not with 160,000 corporations, but with a representative group of corporations over a period. I don't know how you would consult with 160,000. I guess you can send

Industry committee  That's a tough question. I really don't think I can answer that. I've never seen it raised, and I haven't thought about it. I don't know.

Industry committee  Every time we have a change in the board of directors, I speak to them, and I have noted increasing interest in things like insurance, indemnification, these kinds of issues, the potential legal liability, but I do not sense that people are deterred. They want to be informed. The

Industry committee  I suppose the standard one would be some kind of mediation process that would help people sort out the dispute. That's something an organization can build in. That's something we can look at, as an organization ourselves, to try to forestall situations where members are going to

Industry committee  I mean, that's the nature of the world today. Information, and helping people to manage that information, is really what it's all about. I don't see any solution by saying, “Send it back to the drafters to tell them to come up with something that's going to be simpler.” I'm not

Industry committee  Speaking for the Red Cross, we are a national organization that is incorporated under the Canada Corporations Act. And although we have 300-odd branches and zones and regions, that's all internal organization. So we are one corporation, and we respond as one corporation to the ac

Industry committee  We appeared in February 2005 on Bill C-21.