Finance committee  Sir, that information is actually not correct, in terms of the number of layoffs. At that point, from our understanding, the charity laid off 283 people, of whom we still had [Inaudible—Editor] on the team. We'll get you that exact information, but that's not a correct statement,

Finance committee  Actually, I have it; I apologize. Just to be very clear, we had 390 employees and, just with the difficult decisions we had to make with the pandemic—

Finance committee  My apologies—

Finance committee  That's to the best of our knowledge, of course, under the circumstances.

Finance committee  Of course, Ms. May, thank you. Out of all of this, we appreciate your kind compliments at the beginning as well. Very quickly, of course going back three months ago, the world was topsy-turvy. I had a prescheduled trip to go to Kenya to help work with the organization. Then a ha

Finance committee  Ms. May, as a member of Parliament you probably have much more influence than we do in these cases. We had dozens of young people there on the team—a very complicated situation. I was there for less than 24 hours. Yes, we were able to get people home.

Finance committee  Sir, it's a very good question. We put our hand up to be of assistance, because the date initially on which this program would be launching would be early June. This was done in coordination with ESDC. We had many phone calls with them and their team, and specifically Rachel Wer

Finance committee  If I could, we were often having daily conversations with ESDC at that time—many conversations a week—in coordination with negotiating the contract with the organization and the organization's teams together. It was very much a coordinated effort, sir.

Finance committee  Thanks, sir. Prior to the conversation with the government, when Ms. Wernick approached us with this opportunity, we received approximately, give or take, $5 million from the federal government to the best of our knowledge. It was over many, many years, going back to 2013 [Inaud

Finance committee  Thank you, Chair. We really appreciate it. Mr. Angus, we hear your question. We understand your concern. The answer is that up to this point we've had virtually very limited engagement with the federal government in seeking funds. At this point, they approached us for this progr

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I apologize. The clerk had agreed that at every hour we would be provided a five- to 10-minute pause. We understand that spending four hours is quite unprecedented. I haven't had a chance to spend even four hours with my two little girls in the last month—

Finance committee  We're spending a lot of quality time together, sir. We haven't had a chance to—

Finance committee  We love spending time with you, sir, but at some point that would be lovely.

Finance committee  Could you clarify in terms of the general rules, please?

Finance committee  We're certainly happy to take that back and seek greater clarification.