Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here today.
I want to begin by particularly thanking the YMCA, which is where I worked after school and on the weekends all through high school and every summer through my high school life. I want to salute the youth employment work of the YMCA. It got me to where I am today.
I'd like to begin by asking Mr. Hallward and Mr. MacDonald together to comment on the ways in which your proposals interact. It seems to me that what I hear you saying is that we need the not-for-profit sector to have the capacity to function as a sector together vis-à-vis government and civil society, whether it's through this fund you're proposing or some other means. You are also asking government to pull together and interact with the sector in ways that make more sense in terms of simplifying reporting, application processes, etc.
I'm wondering whether your organizations are talking to one another and whether you feel that the ensemble of your proposals today would achieve that goal in totality. Of course, nothing in life is perfect.
What is the interaction between your two proposals?