Finance committee  Could you repeat the question?

Finance committee  Just to do the update on July 6, or whatever the date was, July 2020, it would have been about two days, so maybe 16 hours. But since then, with all the media, and before then, it has been pretty much.... A lot [Technical difficulty—Editor] last month.

Finance committee  On the research report, it wouldn't be much, maybe a day or two. Greg, the big work was on the impact analysts' side. How many hours do you think the analysts spent on it?

Finance committee  No, just to give you context, for the Fort McMurray fires, the Canadian Red Cross deployed about 2,800 volunteers. That would have been people in their network. On the number of volunteers, the 40,000, maybe that's a better question for Volunteer Canada, because they would have b

Finance committee  We were looking at the WE Days and we were looking at the WE Schools program—so not a service volunteer program like this.

Finance committee  Not really. You deal with the hand you're dealt. I didn't want to go into the policy, but I was really surprised that there wasn't a recommendation in the Senate report to raise the disbursement quota from 3.5% to 5%. That, to me, is low-hanging fruit. I would really like to se

Finance committee  No. When people believe in a charity, they serve at that charity, and they serve as a director.

Finance committee  I may be confused on that, but I believe those trips were provided by ME to WE, the private business.

Finance committee  I would just say that this is part of the entire issue we've been dealing with over these last five weeks. I have not read today's news about this, and there is so much new information coming out that we have not processed yet. You know more about the Quebec situation, and nation

Finance committee  No. I will add that one of the concerns in assessing the ME to WE Foundation in the U.S. three weeks ago was that it was engaged with corporate sponsors and the advertising of the corporate sponsors. The idea was that if you buy this box of garbage bags, the money will go to WE

Finance committee  For WE Charity Foundation, it would take longer than normal. Having analyzed it for many years, we have a model, so it's just an update to the model. I estimate I would have spent—and I would have gone through this one very carefully, as it is more complex—probably two days on it

Finance committee  In reading the information on WE Charity's results reports, I was using the fiscal 2018 annual report for its results. I was informed by WE Charity management that the 2019 annual report was late because of COVID, and I did not do an update on its programs and locations, so, in m

Finance committee  That kind of information is not reported in the audited financial statements, and I did not see that in my time going through its website.

Finance committee  On that point about social enterprises, as Mr. Julian would be aware from his social enterprise, social enterprises are a sort of new and innovative way for charities to work today. The WE situation is different, not so much because of its relationship with a social enterprise bu

Finance committee  Yes, you have that right. There was so much confusion by Canadians—there has been since we began research coverage—about the relationship between WE Charity and ME to WE. It was just very blurry. Our role was to write the information in common English so that donors could underst