Finance committee  You mentioned the labour shortage and said that people don't want to go into this field. I will just tell you that I have respect for the work that you and your team do. It is not easy work. It takes a special kind of person to work in that sector. I understand labour shortages

Finance committee  Good morning. I guess it is still morning. I'm Kim Rudd. I am the member of Parliament for Northumberland—Peterborough South. For context, that is a rural riding in southeastern Ontario.

Finance committee  Do you want to add to that?

Finance committee  Thank you. I'll go to Mr. Hartland, and to Patrick and Scott as well on the coordination that needs to continue to happen around tapping into our vast resources, especially in the north. Yes, of course it is about economic development, but it's also about community development

Finance committee  Thank you. Once again, thank you all for coming. I have a couple of things. To Kelsey and Catherine, could you give me a sense of your total operating budget for your organization?

Finance committee  I read your brief, but I also did a bit of research. I'm very fascinated. My background is in post-secondary education, and mostly for adult learners. Is there some sense of the ability to replicate this program across the north? Obviously, you have to start somewhere. You've m

Finance committee  Good morning. Thank you for coming. I'm Kim Rudd, the member of Parliament for Northumberland—Peterborough South. For context, that's in a rural riding in southeastern Ontario.

Finance committee  They're not specifically in your organization, because I saw the list and I didn't see them. That's why I wondered.

Finance committee  Understood. Thank you. I have another quick question. You mentioned freshwater protection in your brief. I happen to live on Lake Ontario, so it's a very important thing to me. This past July, Minister McKenna announced the Great Lakes protection initiative, and I wondered if yo

Finance committee  Are you involved?

Finance committee  Thank you. I'd like to go to Ms. Bell on the tourism piece. Tourism is so important to our country, as you articulated. Because of the diversity and the vastness of our country, one of the things I'm hearing from you has to do with the importance of tourism not just as an econ

Finance committee  Thank you very much, all of you, for coming tonight. I don't know where to start. I have five minutes and so many questions. I'm going to start with Mr. Roberts and the CLC. You noted in your brief that you support a national seniors strategy. You talk in the brief about food

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Those were concise answers, fabulous. I'll move to the Green Budget Coalition. Your presentation was very informative, and I was quite interested in two things. One of them was on Canada's commitment to sustainable agriculture. I live in an agricultural ri

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you all for coming. I'm going to try to get in as many questions as I can. Morna, I just reflected that I was sitting in that chair 25 years ago when I was chair of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care talking about this very thing

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I want to go to you, Mr. Gullo, on the railway. I'm one of those MPs who takes advantage of the complimentary VIA and I ride the train for three and a half hours back to my riding every week. There's absolutely no question there has been improvement in rai