Finance committee  I was just going to say that right now, quite honestly, there's so much to do that even if we overlapped we probably wouldn't come close to covering the scale of the job that needs to be done. The other thing is that sometimes there's healthy competition. Competition isn't neces

Finance committee  They're both written very well.

Finance committee  To be honest, I don't think the bill does that; I don't think the bill stops it from happening. I'm going to come back to who you put in will be the ultimate key. If it is the right person, you don't have that fear. If it's the wrong person, it could be.... That's why I say t

Finance committee  Speaking just for the foundation, I would say that there are probably five different funders right now that we're doing projects with, the likes of which we could never have dreamt of before. We're probably getting funding ten times what we did before, of a scale that we never ho

Finance committee  I wouldn't drive it; I would steer it. I think everything you've listed and what you taught in school I could probably attach a financial lesson plan to. Right now we're not putting new outcomes and expectations in the schools because there are already about four times too many.

Finance committee  Right now we are integrating financial education into language arts, social studies, mathematics, and whatever. We're linking it to existing curriculum and it fits. You don't need a home. We're not forcing anything more on the teachers. We're helping them do what they already do

Finance committee  If the question pertains particularly—if you are concerned about the accountability of the leader, and the mandate of the leader, and how to assess whether the leader actually performed the functions and to what degree, I guess there are two things. One is that I would assess the

Finance committee  In the schools, for example, we have 10 pages that map over three levels of learning—elementary, middle school, and high school. There's progressive development across those ages that really maps out the areas of knowledge, skills, and behaviour that we think constitute financial

Finance committee  It can happen before that.

Finance committee  It's all free and open. We're a national organization, and we're.... I'll give you one example, because it started with Manitoba. We do all the work for Manitoba. Manitoba has all the final say. We work with a stakeholders group to determine what's going to be integrated into t

Finance committee  Yes. We certainly develop resources, with funding from the federal government, that we openly put into the schools. There is nothing to stop the provision of resources. As long as they can scrutinize them and make sure they're effective for what they're trying to do in terms of p

Finance committee  I will, very quickly. For our part, we work with all the financial institutions. Most of the financial institutions know that they don't know how to do what we're doing. You could argue that there's self-interest on the banks' part to use that, but I think that in the long term a

Finance committee  I think the leader—he or she—faces a real opportunity in the sense that we need research. There are a lot of things we don't know, and we all know the things we don't know. That leader could work with us to help us, and I think that kind of role and the collaboration that we coul

Finance committee  I have a bias because of...or you'd think I'd have a bias because I am not fully bilingual. My kids are. One of my daughters is studying in France right now. We have five board members in Quebec. We're very active in Quebec. I lead the organization and we function very well in

Finance committee  I would say that I don't know the politics of it all. Does it make sense to have a leader with an advisory group to draw upon the expertise that exists in this country? For sure. Do you have to enshrine that to make sure it happens? I don't know. If you were to pick a leader fo