Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for the opportunity.

Veterans Affairs committee  We need help with operational funding. It's very obvious, sir, that we are all very good at fundraising, because we've shown that pre-COVID. But now with COVID, and having a very limited ability to fundraise, we need help just to keep the lights on and pay our bills, and things l

Veterans Affairs committee  As MP Carrie said, we found out last Wednesday that we had to have the applications in by Sunday. Just taking a very quick look at the funds, we didn't want to be greedy; all that we applied for was help with our insurance.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, because our payroll is so low, we don't meet the minimum requirement.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, because so much of our work is done by volunteers. We do have an HST number. If we could access CEBA just through the fact that we have an HST number and are an actual business—

Veterans Affairs committee  And we report.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're going to continue with our.... At the start of COVID, we came up with doing a take-out meal every two weeks. That serves our members, and we've also expanded out into the community. This weekend coming up we have 100 meals booked already. We're hustling in any way we can,

Veterans Affairs committee  We most definitely would, and we'd be in a position to support all of the groups and programs that we normally had, and probably even increase our revenues again over last year's.

Veterans Affairs committee  I was just going to comment on how over the last three years we've become very innovative. We've sourced new sources of revenue. We've been growing our revenues and keeping our membership the same.

Veterans Affairs committee  As I said, we explored all options. The CEBA program was not available to us. Other grants and programs, most of them are for new programs. There is nothing for operating expenses. When you do take a grant for a new program, you have to make a commitment to keep it going for two,

Veterans Affairs committee  Because of our large number of volunteers, we did not meet the payroll requirements for the CEBA. None of the other programs we have looked at apply to us.

Veterans Affairs committee  I've been the chair of our organization for the last two years. Before that, I was kind of on and off the executive but very active in the wing. Ten years ago, our membership was probably 135 people. Right now, I think we're sitting at 115. We launched a very early and aggressiv

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  We are completely independent. We're made up of air force veterans. We have about 20 members of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association. We do have Legion members who also have membership with us. We are a totally independent club building on the heritage. We were founded in 194

Veterans Affairs committee  People have membership with us and with the Legion. We have some of those people. We also have the Ontario regiment. Their officers' mess is closed and they've been told it will not reopen, so people who are members of the officers' mess have come to us now and have become member