Finance committee  We were thrilled, as I said earlier, and excited at the opportunity to participate in this program. In advance of the final negotiations on the agreement, we had restructured our staff team to be able to meet the objectives of the program. One direct impact, of course, was that w

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. Our new strategic plan does articulate those goals. I hope you don't mind and don't think it's inappropriate, but I'll definitely be reaching out to you to support us in terms of how we can convince bureaucrats and the government to make sure that we can get the

Finance committee  Thank you so much.

Finance committee  It is hundreds, and I'm happy to provide you with that list as well. As well, we transparently place that on our website.

Finance committee  Yes, it was 1977. You have that right.

Finance committee  We partner with institutions to support some of the program initiatives that we can't fund on our own. We're often asked to create partnerships with other charities, and of course we do consider those based on a values-connection synergy basis, but I wouldn't say that we formaliz

Finance committee  No. As I was saying in my previous question, very often we are funded to provide the program and to launch the program in certain regions of the country. We were supposed to—prior to COVID—with the support of ESDC, develop a growth plan into all 12 provinces and northern territor

Finance committee  We have the capacity through alumni and anyone in the current cohorts who would have come from the north. As you know, our organization has made a 50-year commitment for our last strategic plan to the manifestation of the truth and reconciliation commitment with indigenous commun

Finance committee  Yes, as a result of the diversity in funding allotments, let's say, through the years, the organization has had to shrink and expand and be fairly fluid in how we do that, but we do have a large number of alumni from the north who participated in our programs who would have been

Finance committee  I would agree with that. As I said in a previous question or in my remarks, we did reach out to the minister to offer one suggestion, which was to maybe look at the potential of not only supporting post-secondary education students, who many believe, rightfully or wrongly, are

Finance committee  It would have been in a call, the date of which I don't recall. It would have been in a call I'm going to assume was at some point in April. We were told there was going to be a program specific to students, that the government had partnered with a third party provider, and that

Finance committee  It was on a call with ESDC.

Finance committee  I don't remember the April 15 date. That's what I want to check and get back to you on, just to make sure.

Finance committee  That's all right. I believe—and I can look for that as well—that there might have been an email from ESDC at some point with some information about the fact that this program was going to be coming forward and that CSC partners would be engaged in the process by the third party

Finance committee  No. I didn't know much about WE Charity prior to hearing about them through this exercise.