Evidence of meeting #41 for Finance in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was volunteer.
A video is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
At that time, what did WE Charity represent their involvement in the program to be?
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Volunteer Canada
On May 20, they were in final negotiations of the contribution agreement but wanted to ensure that they were being prepared to implement the program, so they were letting us know that they were likely to be implementing the program.
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Conservative
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
There were four meetings that took place. Who was involved in those meetings?
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Volunteer Canada
There were the executive director, someone in charge of partnerships, someone in charge of programs, and other staff members who would be involved in creating training and other elements of the program.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
You were, okay.
In terms of some of the work, or the scope of work that WE was interested in Volunteer Canada undertaking, I'm just going to go through a list of things and you can confirm whether or not those items were discussed.
Creating training content...?
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Conservative
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Conservative
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
Connecting WE with volunteer organizations across Canada looking for volunteers...?
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Volunteer Canada
Potentially connecting to volunteer centres—yes.
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Conservative
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
Okay.
Is it fair to say that WE was approaching Volunteer Canada because of the extensive network that Volunteer Canada has with not-for-profit organizations across Canada?
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Volunteer Canada
I believe they were interested in our connections with the network, as well as expertise in volunteer engagement.
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Conservative
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
Volunteer engagement—that would be experience that, it would be fair to say, WE didn't have a track record of. Is that fair?
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Volunteer Canada
My understanding was that their experience was in youth engagement and connecting with schools, and that they were looking to us for that additional expertise in volunteer engagement.
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Conservative
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
They didn't have a track record of connecting young people with not-for-profit organizations, and they were looking to Volunteer Canada and your experience, your expertise. Am I correct?