Human Resources committee  We'd be glad to.

Human Resources committee  Actually, the question is not clear to me.

Human Resources committee  Certainly. The positives are the promise that it brings in new money. That is enticing to everyone, whether you are a government, a not-for-profit, or a community. Everyone wants to bring in new moneys, so I understand that. If that's possible, great. Wonderful. However, not to

Human Resources committee  Certainly. No question about it, but the other side of it, in terms of this point of the current system not working very well, is that we have a larger conversation going on in what's called outcome service delivery. There are also some problems attached to that, in that the cont

Human Resources committee  I agree with the general idea there, that social innovation and social enterprises are not necessarily a bad thing, and I certainly wouldn't want my remarks to be misunderstood in that respect. As I said, our focus is quite narrowly on the social service area, and I think part o

Human Resources committee  No, we did not. We looked broadly at the Big Society initiative in the United Kingdom and how that set of ideas was brought to Alberta. Danielle Smith from the Wildrose Party actually used the term in 2011, and Alison Redford was clearly influenced by it, but there's no direct

Human Resources committee  It was $500 million.

Human Resources committee  No, right before it was about to be transferred, Jim Prentice killed Bill 1, in December 2014.

Human Resources committee  Parkland Institute is an Alberta-based institution, and that's mostly our focus. That's why it would certainly read that way. It was our focus. I understand that British Columbia is much more enthusiastic about the concept. To be honest with you, if Alison Redford had been prem

Human Resources committee  That's correct.

Human Resources committee  Okay, what would the added value of social finance be? I guess I should say that the reason we inaugurated our study wasn't necessarily to look into social finance per se. We actually were looking into the struggles that not-for-profits were already facing in Alberta, and social

Human Resources committee  That sounds great. Thank you very much. Unfortunately, this undermines each of the well-documented strengths of the non-profit sector. Since I do have one minute, I really will cut to the chase and say that instead of focusing on social finance, we should be looking at how we c

Human Resources committee  I work for Parkland Institute, a think tank here in Edmonton that's based out of the University of Alberta. We don't receive funding or anything else from the university, and we are a non-partisan group that tries to shed light on public policy issues that emerge in Alberta. I