Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regard to the NGO funding, I know there’s a lot of community organizations that are struggling just to run their organizations. Again, is there sort of a time limit or an amount of times that you can apply for funding over a period of time? It is a Stabilization Fund to assist those organizations to stabilize their operation and get them on the way of being some sort of an independent process. So is there a possibility of looking at a different type of criteria where you can use this money up? I know that there’s some frustration with some community programs. I know there’s some frustration with some community programs that were put out, but there was only one-year funding where once you get it you can’t get it the next year. I think for a few community organizations it was a great program to begin with, but the next year when they applied on it they were told sorry, you can only apply once. Because there’s these types of restrictions on different types of programs I’m wondering if there’s that type of regulation or rule that would be applied to these types of NGO funds so that groups that have applied but didn’t get an opportunity to receive it would be able to have a fair playing field so all organizations are able to establish it. It is a stabilization and assistance fund. The whole idea is to make sure you’re stable enough to operate on your own. NGOs have hiccups once in a while whether dealing with Revenue Canada or the tax man or whatever. I’m wondering if that thing is that you don’t continue to pay for bad behaviour. You have to make them realize this is one-time funding and is there to assist when you find yourself in that situation but it’s not saying that you come back every year and find yourself in the same problem with Revenue Canada or never paid your payroll tax or whatever. I’d like to know if there’s some sort of understanding regarding that fund. It’s not ongoing funding. It’s there for the purpose of assisting NGOs with a Stabilization Fund to assist them in the operation of their services.
David Krutko on Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 27th, 2011
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