Mr. Chair, if I may, our mandate as given to us by Treasury Board is to facilitate the formation and creation of those non-profit organizations and to ensure that the board governance structure preserves a 51% military spouse participation rate. What I mean by that is that every MFRC is registered in the province in which it operates, and every MFRC is governed by a board of directors comprised of at least 51% military family spouses. What we do there is honour the grassroots nature of this. This began as a spousal initiative, and the Government of Canada recognized that we should honour and foster family empowerment, so they help themselves.
On June 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.