Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Through you to the witnesses, thank you for being here today and for your insight into our study on social financing as it relates to crime prevention.
My first question is to Mr. McNichol.
I notice you nodding your head in agreement with much of what Ms. Shaw, the previous witness, had to say. I too agreed with much of what she said, but one of the things I'd like to dispel right now is this notion—and I think I understood Ms. Shaw to say—that society would look at someone making money on somebody else's misery as maybe not a good thing. I'll ask you the same question I ask myself. We have hospitals and we have drug companies. Drug companies treat people who have cancers. In some cases, the drugs have cured people of cancer. Companies make MRI machines that help us find cancers more quickly than we ever could before. That is because people who have cancer are in misery, right? They have a disease.
There's really nothing wrong with making money on somebody else's misery, provided the outcomes relieve the misery. Would you agree with me?