Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to both of our witnesses here today. I'm very pleased you could be here to give us more help on this particular issue.
I'm going to read something you said in your opening remarks. You indicated that “It provides opportunities to leverage additional investments to increase the available dollars to scale up proven approaches” that address social and environmental challenges.
How does it increase the available dollars? When we take a look at what we're spending now on crime prevention through a Public Safety NCPC program, we have a set amount of funds that we use. They go to several different areas. One is the youth gang prevention fund, and so on.
How would social finance help us to increase the available dollars and scale up proven approaches? I'm curious to know. Explain to the committee how that works.