Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to our guests. I want to welcome both organizations. In the five years prior to being elected, I was the executive director of the United Way in Sudbury, so I know both organizations quite well.
I want to talk initially to Imagine Canada. There was an initial excitement--because you can take the guy out of the United Way, but you can't take the United Way out of the guy--when I went through the bill. And yes, there is a need for revitalizing and getting this new regulation into place because it is so old. But the first thing I thought of was the 60-some organizations we were funding in Sudbury--and one of them is the Red Cross, I might add--and I can see these three-person shops, with an executive director and part-time staff and a volunteer, who have been doing this great work for our community, and we're going to drop these new regulations on them.
If we do anything to inhibit the great work of these organizations, are they going to be able to provide the services? Before I get to the next part of that question, maybe you can comment on that.