Colleagues, we will call this meeting to order.
This is meeting 29 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. Today we are following up on our study of social financing as it relates to crime prevention in Canada. We've had a number of meetings on this, and we welcome further witnesses today.
For this first hour we have two witnesses, and then we have another witness for the second hour.
In the first hour as witnesses we have Mr. Andy Broderick, the vice-president of community investment from the Vancity Credit Union. We also have, by way of video conference from Seattle, Washington, Mr. James Tansey, the executive director of the ISIS Research Centre, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
Gentlemen, we will give each of you up to 10 minutes for a presentation and then we will open the floor to questions from the members.
In the order on the agenda, we will start with Mr. Broderick for an opening statement, and he'll be followed by Mr. Tansey.
Mr. Broderick, the floor is yours, sir.