Finance committee  It's an expensive activity at times to safely engineer a program where you're moving young people from community to community, and the cost attached to that through travel and through housing is expensive. It can be expensive. On the program's specific cost, I have no comment t

Finance committee  Yes, and administrative costs as a percentage of program costs in the sector usually run anywhere between 10% to 20%, given the charity, to answer your question.

Finance committee  The scope and the focus of this particular program, as I said in my opening, is something that we very much believe in, because obviously students have been displaced from jobs that they would need to continue their education. First of all, I would say that it's unfortunate, be

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. What I would say is that the results speak for themselves. As I mentioned in my opening statement, these young people who leave programs like ours were previously unaware as to how they could contribute and find ways to do so. They leave these programs with a tre

Finance committee  I would say to you that we have the knowledge and the capacity to have participated in the management of the program. I believe that for a program like this to succeed, it would have had to have been a collaborative effort, leveraging the expertise that some charities and some no

Finance committee  Yes, we would have formed a collaboration, but of course our emphasis would have been on organizations that excel and have the expertise in volunteer placements.

Finance committee  Are you referring to ESDC?

Finance committee  I'm not sufficiently aware of their capacity, to answer that question.

Finance committee  As I said before, I think a number of other charities—and we're blessed as a country to have so many non-profits that are skilled in this area—could have come together and delivered the program, leveraging each other's expertise. I'll try to speed this up so that I don't take u

Finance committee  Our head office is in Quebec, yes, and we run programs in Quebec.

Finance committee  Yes, we have the capacity to do that.

Finance committee  Yes, there are.

Finance committee  I would be happy to provide you a list of the ones that I think have that specialization.

Finance committee  Yes, you're correct.

Finance committee  If you were finding youth to attach to placements in the communities in which they lived, then of course, yes, there would not have been increased costs for housing.