Finance committee  I think any cuts to the voluntary sector are.... Of course, tax money doesn't pay for the volunteers, but it basically enables the voluntary sector to be successful and to be able to provide the services they do. In my culture, what they call “the salt in the dough” is very impo

Finance committee  That's right. Don't forget that we are talking about 0.7% of our gross national income, and with this increase of 18% or whatever the level is now, it will take us to 0.7% by 2015.

Finance committee  I think literacy is important, both for the international level and for the Canadian level. In our brief, we also mentioned the cutbacks to the literacy programs in Canada. We don't like those cutbacks. What happens with literacy is that the perspective of individuals changes an

Finance committee  My answer for that would be that he was right the first time, and I hope the majority of you people in the Parliament, while the Conservative Party has a minority, are able to push him back to his promise that Canada, as a very rich country, should be able to do more than what it

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairperson. Members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to be here talking on behalf of the SCIC, the Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation. In your finance committee's recent document “Canada's Place in a Competitive