Veterans Affairs committee  It's nice to see you too, and thank you for your kind words. With regard to some of the available federal funding, yes, we have been able to benefit from the emergency wage subsidy. We did receive some funding from the emergency community support fund that was administered throu

Veterans Affairs committee  I shouldn't say we're not looking; we're always looking for different sources of revenue. We have a couple of volunteers focusing on that right now, looking at some larger corporate donations, which we're hoping will be successful.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. In addition to the wage subsidy, which, as I said, has been very helpful, part of the most recent funding, the veterans organizations emergency support fund, was to assist with our staffing. We will also be getting an administrator back. Unfortunately, the one we had found a

Veterans Affairs committee  No, some of that money does go to the administrative side, along with donations.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. That's something that I think all non-profits deal with, always wondering where the next paycheque's going to come from, so to speak. That is a constant concern for us, especially.... As grateful as we are to have this funding, it is for a period of one year. Beyond that, we

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  On the long-term impact, it's going to take us a while to catch up, with what we've had to endure over the past eight months. With regard to the older veterans you're speaking of and their social isolation, it's something that we've seen an awful lot of ourselves, especially wit

Veterans Affairs committee  With regard, first of all, to the caseload coming from Veterans Affairs and their emergency fund, you're right. It does take them a little longer to get those funds into the hands of veterans, and that's when we work kind of in tandem with them. We'll take care of the emergency n

Veterans Affairs committee  With regard to the volunteers, that's certainly been a big impact. Our friends at the Legion said the same thing. As an example, our Ottawa team has well over 100 volunteers. During COVID, we had less than 10 who were willing to go out and meet veterans face to face. It's had a

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. As I mentioned earlier, the $850,000 is certainly going to help us over the next year. Our issue is the long term. As I mentioned in my statement, we only have six paid staff members, so we have to constantly be sourcing out revenue streams, lookin

Veterans Affairs committee  Right now I would say that our biggest financial needs are to be able to provide the food and the rent and those sorts of things for veterans. As I mentioned, the $850,000 would be sufficient for a year. Normally in the run of a year, we would spend more than $1 million, so we'

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. Thank you for that and for your kind words. We did get through it. I think it was.... We were very resourceful. We were able to really tap into some of our regular donors who maybe couldn't afford to donate financially but were willing to donate some food or that sort of th

Veterans Affairs committee  The $850,000 we received is actually the largest sum of money we have received from the federal government. Our funding prior to that, through the veteran family well-being fund, was $840,000 for an 18-month period. We're definitely in a better situation with this $850,000. How

Veterans Affairs committee  A lot of the veterans who have come our way were receiving the CERB payments. We've had a few who, once that ended, were in dire straights. We also had a few who weren't actually entitled to those CERB payments, so they're going to have to pay those back. Then we've also had vete