Finance committee  Thank you for helping explain that. I want to turn attention to our friends from STARS in western Canada. Thank you for all the work you do. When you see the STARS helicopter in the sky, it's certainly recognizable in western Canada where I'm from, in Edmonton. Thank you. I kno

Finance committee  Okay, so Ornge is 100% funded provincially, and you are about 44% funded provincially in comparison. That's interesting. Looking at your financial statement here, it seems there have been some increases in certain areas of funds, but the lottery, for example, brought in less in

Finance committee  Just to follow up, any idea as to why that would have happened?

Finance committee  Thank you all for being here today, and thank you to those of you who travelled a distance to be here. I would like to begin with you, Mr. Peco and Mr. Fritz, if we could. Can you help me understand the structure of how you raise money? For example, the Calgary Stampede is a ve

Finance committee  Does the membership fee structure do something? Does the Calgary Stampede then inadvertently fund some of the smaller ones, or is it nominal and doesn't really have an impact?

Finance committee  I'm Matt Jeneroux, a member of Parliament from Edmonton. I thank you for being here today.

Finance committee  Which is what CHARS was....

Finance committee  In terms of showing that support, the extension of the CHARS program would be helpful, I assume.

Finance committee  The science minister says good things about this, but, unfortunately, it has been three years now. We have yet to see the commitment.

Finance committee  I do want to turn to both Mr. Barnard and my good friend Annette Trimbee, former deputy minister of finance. I'm sure the former deputy minister of finance would actually have seen a number of these things over her career in Alberta. I want to start with you, Mr. Barnard, on the

Finance committee  All right. Ms. Trimbee.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to everybody again for being here, including those of you who travelled to be here as well. I do want to talk to the universities in particular, but I would like to start with Ms. Fishback, if I may. The PEARL program at the time was certainly

Finance committee  Good morning, everybody. I'm Matt Jeneroux, member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend.

Finance committee  Do you mean the chemotherapy...?

Finance committee  I couldn't help but notice that very low administration costs run through the research institute. That's quite impressive. I'm curious as to how what you're speaking of now differs from or enhances the current node process that the institute does. Every year I do a fundraiser wi