Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
We have just been informed that we have votes to get to at 5:30. We're arranging for the transportation to be in front of the building right at 5:15 so we can get to it immediately and it won't be an issue for us to get to the House of Commons. That being said, the timing of these presentations will obviously be affected and questioning will be even more so.
Unless the committee objects, I'm going to give the presenters their time to present, because they've come to present. We'll get in as many rounds of questions as we can, and maybe even shorten those to three minutes or one question per member in order to get through them most effectively.
Just before I do that, I was hoping to do this at the end. Colleagues, as you probably know, our parliamentary secretary, Scott Armstrong, lost his father last week. That's why Scott isn't here and Mr. Goguen is here on his behalf. I'd like to say to you that obviously our sympathies are with Scott and his family at this time. If you choose to send him a note and you need his coordinates, please get them through me so you can express your feelings to him.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
We're here to continue our study on exploring the potential of social finance.
Joining us now we have Ms. Cathy Taylor, the executive director of the Ontario Nonprofit Network.
We also have Mr. Michael Toye, the executive director of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network.
Splitting his time with Mr. Toye we have Mr. Michael Oster, the president of the Ottawa Community Loan Fund.
Finally, we have Mr. Jacques Charest, the president of CAP Finance.
Ms. Taylor, why don't you start? You have up to ten minutes.