Finance committee  I have a comment that also goes back to your question, Dan. If we have sustainable and stable funding for our organizations, it enables us to leverage other funding opportunities, both from the private sector and from the provinces.

Finance committee  It's for four years.

Finance committee  Yes, that's our hope with it too. We are a not-for-profit. We do have a history of being effective and efficient with the use of funding, by necessity. As Steven mentioned earlier on community literacy initiatives, as coalitions our hope with this funding is to form better, st

Finance committee  Good morning, everyone. On behalf of the the literacy coalitions in P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. We have a lot to say on the issue of low literacy in Atlantic Canada and in Canada at large. In the