Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Fonseca. There's a triad that we always look at. The first thing we have to do is determine if we can we validate, if there is a need. The second thing we look at is whether there is access. Is there a need that we can help with? Is there access into that nation?

Foreign Affairs committee  There are a number of ways. It would be ridiculous if we all thought that you could stop funding the UN. Obviously that doesn't work. If you cap the amount that you are giving to the UN and the big systems, cap the amount that goes to large organizations, and introduce, let's say

Foreign Affairs committee  A couple came up in different segments. There's the uncoupling of the unilateral...or the giving to the UN. What ends up happening is that you give all this money into a very large system. They then take a significant percentage of it as an administration fee and go out to try to

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. Before I do that, I'd love to quantify some of the numbers I gave you earlier. When we started looking inward at the water units we were buying, we were paying about $50 for a unit. When we did it ourselves by buying in bulk and leveraging volunteers, we were down to about

Foreign Affairs committee  GlobalMedic is a great Canadian story. We're an agile, small and innovative aid agency that's managed by professional humanitarians, but driven by volunteers. We believe in getting the right aid to the right people at the right time. GlobalMedic has run 226 missions in 76 countri

Finance committee  Number one, we started asking government to let us be part of this program back in April and we heard nothing. I explained to you the steps we took with that. On June 15, we received an email from the WE organization asking us if we'd be interested. On June 17, we had a conferenc

Finance committee  We have. We've gone back to Minister Chagger's office. To their credit, they were very quick in responding. A director of policy or a director of stakeholders responded and said that the government, ESDC, was going to take over and would be in touch. Now it's been a few weeks and

Finance committee  Thanks for the question. I'm going to try to bite my tongue here. I think there's some—

Finance committee  I think there's some inefficiency in process. I was talking about programming too much big money through big partners and offloading liability from government by saying, “Listen, simply re-program the money in April,” because people like you can come back and ask, “How come that

Finance committee  You're not wrong in using the contribution agreements—that's fine—but you have to evaluate the efficacy of the contribution agreements. Frankly, Peter, you've just proven my point. You've given Ms. Senior's group $13 million, $3 million of which she's programmed, and she just t

Finance committee  In April, the government announced $350 million to be programmed by three charities: the Red Cross, the United Way, which is called Centraide in Quebec, and—

Finance committee  They are. I would also like to respond to your comment.

Finance committee  First of all, the government is doing its best. I understand that. You have great intentions in getting programs out. The concerns I'm raising are about efficacy and doing things better. We're in the long haul of a fight here. We're not at the end of this fight. Chances are that

Finance committee  On the mechanisms that I was referring to, do you mean the $350 million or the other two grants?

Finance committee  So the summer jobs and WE Charity.