Finance committee  You can have a raffle or something.

Finance committee  Sure. Another one in Thunder Bay is that the organization I work for, PARO, has the PARO Presents gift store. We have the products of 80 local women, most of them older and aboriginal women, who have started their businesses through some of our micro finance and business developm

Finance committee  Yes. It's $500 to $5,000.

Finance committee  Yes. I have another great example. We were recently in Winnipeg for the Winnipeg community economic development gathering and took a tour of the city to see some of their really neat CED projects. One was BUILD, a program for ex-gang members. BUILD is a construction company t

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and honourable members. I'll give you some examples. I work in northern Ontario. Mike talked about needed goods and services. As a good example, we're working with the True North Community Co-op, which provides locally produced goods and services, particu

Finance committee  This is an example of a group that we work with. It's a community enterprise. It's a group of women who meet and together have produced these socks and have introduced them into Nipigon, a small community outside of Thunder Bay's tourism strategy. Over the last two years, they've