Finance committee  No, sir, the environment is very important to us, as is mental health. There are a handful of issues in which we've been involved for many years.

Finance committee  Sir, it's not a shell company, because, number one, it's not a company, and number two, it's not a shell.

Finance committee  Sir, it would have been a handful of hours. It's hard to guess.

Finance committee  Sir, thank you for the question. It was par for the course. Once again, not just for the WE Day stage—we get people who want to do that—but it was the ancillary events. We have a number of speakers who have done that over the years. We've done 137 WE Days since we started. When

Finance committee  Sir, just to be very clear, the organizations that were party to the agreement were all registered charities.

Finance committee  It was part of the conversation and the negotiation with the ESDC team, the legal team—

Finance committee  The legal team from ESDC, I don't have the exact names, sir. Of course, Rachel Wernick was privy to those conversations.

Finance committee  She was aware of all the details, sir, of the contribution agreement.

Finance committee  Sir, otherwise the launch of the program, in terms of our signature on the program, would have been two days later. How else would we have had 20,000 volunteer opportunities ready? How else would we have had 83 non-profits signed up? How else—

Finance committee  Mr. Chair—

Finance committee  But we had a whole team working on it, sir.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  The reason being, we already had a whole series of work on social entrepreneurship, because that's what we do. And it's the same on service, sir. We had previously submitted a white paper to the government on this very topic.

Finance committee  I want to be explicitly clear, sir. Once again, this was a contribution agreement. We were not netting hundreds of millions of dollars. That is not correct. Sir, we were doing this as a request from ESDC, and we were only going to be reimbursed for expenses.

Finance committee  Madame, I believe you're speaking about the bank covenant issue that's also been very much misrepresented in the press, particularly by one organization called Charity Intelligence that is sharing false information. Specifically, the bank covenant issue was not an issue. Specif