Human Resources committee  Absolutely, and I'll be brief on that. We're big advocates of very flexible programming. Not everybody can work full time; they might get there. I think starting a job for some of the folks we represent is almost like quitting smoking. If you smoke, everybody says, “Oh my gos

Human Resources committee  That's a very good question. I'll start off by saying that there is such a range of situations, but there are now a significant number of people with various mental health issues. We seem to hear about that more and more across the country, and we're certainly seeing it. Homele

Human Resources committee  Exactly. If you're homeless, your sense of belonging is upside down because your friends are people who want something from you. Your friends are there to take advantage of you, so you can't trust them. If you have had bad experiences with institutions, you don't trust them eithe

Human Resources committee  Absolutely.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, sir. You know what? It's what is so fresh about the organization. Sometimes folks think that when a not-for-profit runs so many different businesses, really you're a restauranteur, you're a recycling company, you're a jam producer, and so on. Not at all; we're a prod

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I can, absolutely. When we started these programs, there was nothing called social finance or social enterprise. We talked about it as being hands-on work experience. The only vehicle available to us was federal funding through youth skills link projects, which were n

Human Resources committee  Courtney is whispering to me, so I'll talk. She's never short on words. I don't know what you folks have done to her.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, sir. I'll fill a minute and then turn a minute back to Courtney. I've had the opportunity in my career to speak at conferences about social enterprise in Canada and the U.S. Actually, think of me as the advance team because I have been over to the U.K. a couple of ti

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I did send in a brief overview on the organization, so you'll have that in front of you, in both languages. I won't speak to what's on there, but I'll give you a very brief overview. I've been with the organization for just over 30 years now,