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Finance committee Exactly. Of course, we knew about WE Charity, and ME to WE, and WE Days and everything else, but in the context of pairing volunteers with the non-profit and charitable sectors, I was not aware that they were involved in that or had been involved in that.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee We are currently active in six. The plan just prior to COVID was to grow from eight to 10 by January and 12 by June. Our goal was a bit thwarted by the pandemic, but that is our intention, to get back to the 12 provinces and—
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee To answer your second question first, just so I can circle back, I think there's a wonderful opportunity here. There are a number of charities within the Canada service corps, very stellar organizations and very good non-profit and charitable organizations as members of the CSC,
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee As a result of the timeline, we weren't going to actually engage in any activity until that renegotiated agreement was signed. In Katimavik's case, although we had restructured the staffing to be able to support the program, we hadn't executed yet on bringing young people into it
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee Absolutely. I know there's been some debate about volunteerism versus remuneration for that, but I think the added benefit in this case is that charities were very hard hit across the board across the country. They needed more help and assistance than necessarily a volunteer corp
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee They are volunteering.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee Yes, the program would be different in that, but we were very supportive of it because it did a number of things in a very innovative way. I think it addressed the issue of students, particularly, who would be disadvantaged from continuing their education potentially, by providin
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee Yes. We apply for and bring on board staff, youth, from Canada summer jobs.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee Yes, there is always room for expansion. We never serve 100% of the youth that we wish to serve, if I could answer it that way. At some point, we understand that governments have budgets of their own and that there is a lot of work to be done. We do the best we can to argue for t
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee No, not in that context. We've been told that the government is looking at potentially a different way of doing this. We've essentially been asked to just wait a little longer before they come back to us and let us know what that is.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee That's correct. We would certainly have provided services in Quebec, in both languages, in our part of the role.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee In our case, Katimavik provides a financial report at every board meeting, which are monthly. The board of directors is given a hard copy cash flow statement and budget actuals report every quarter.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee In my role as a youth advocate for a youth empowerment organization I would say, and I don't mean to be flippant, there's never enough support to do the work we want to do. As much as it's responsible and affordable for governments, yes, we would welcome that investment.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee Thank you.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron
Finance committee No, we had not.
August 13th, 2020Committee meeting
John-Frederick Cameron