Thank you, Madam Chair. This is where experience comes in handy. In my previous role, working in NGOs for over 20 years, working with low-income families, the annual funding that has been received has always been an issue, especially for NGOs that are small. Their sustainability is not secure, so we are looking at actually expanding the funding so that it would be multi-year funding to accommodate smaller societies, et cetera, that need the security of being able to retain their staff. They do not directly link. A lot of community-led initiatives will be in that situation, where they do not have the sustainability, where they need that guarantee so that they can keep their employees and their programs going. However, they are not contingent on each other. We are looking at multi-year funding, but we are open to ideas at the same time, so it's not just people who are getting services now; we are also looking at expanding it. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Cochrane on Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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