Scott Armstrong at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On March 12th, 2015. See this statement in context.

March 12th, 2015 / 4 p.m.

Conservative

Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS

I apologize, Mr. Chair. I'll move on.

Ms. Young, in CUPE's submission to ESDC on its national call for concepts on social finance, your organization indicated concerns related to economic sustainability, fairness, and risks associated with the social finance model.

Can you explain how CUPE feels leveraging more private capital in pursuit of fundamentally broader social good would be unsustainable or unfair?

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