Human Resources committee  We have a community loan fund in Saint John that makes micro loans and has been very successful in that regard. I believe we need some sort of investment in the training business, the social enterprise. The best example is HRDA from Halifax, which you must be familiar with, whi

Human Resources committee  Can I just warn against ACOA? Please, stay away from ACOA. We had the social economy bit with ACOA three, four, or five years ago, whatever. Don't go there. They didn't understand that there could be another kind of business with a double bottom line. They never got it.

Human Resources committee  Well, pick a subject. I can rant on just about anything. I think what you're seeing here is that we've all been at this for quite a while, and we all have ideas, but again, I would say, as Monica keeps mentioning, that there's the word “investment”. We have to get away from thi

Human Resources committee  I just wanted to mention an example. I was working with some families who were living in non-profit housing in a small community. They were being persecuted by their neighbours because they were welfare bums, blah, blah, blah. They told me the only way they could live comfortably

Human Resources committee  Could I just comment on the general direction you're going in here? I just went to a conference last week on crime reduction strategy. Well, it sounded like the same conference on poverty reduction strategy. All of these have so many common threads, whether it's crime or educatio

Human Resources committee  It's a very difficult question because there are so many kinds of non-profits. Some are delivering services in a contractual arrangement on behalf of a government. They should be paid a core amount they can count on every year, with increases according to the cost of living. That

Human Resources committee  That was in the non-profit task force report, which was--we went all around the province and we heard from several hundred non-profit organizations that core funding was the top priority across the board, absolutely number one, way ahead of anything else.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for being here. We always appreciate being heard. I've been heard for hundreds of years, I guess. I'm sort of the old lady in this group, and I'm a rural representative. I used to run the roads for the New Brunswick Housing Corporation. In that capacity, I got a lot of