The funding comes from Employment and Social Development Canada, through the Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities. In terms of the enabling fund, a call for tenders has just been issued for the next three years. The funding comes from the Roadmap and is designed to improve community access to networks and economic development projects for minority communities all across Canada.
Up to now, project submissions have included salaries and operating costs. In three years, all the organizations in the network have to reduce their operating costs so that they do not come to more than 58% of their total budgets. For example, if an organization receives $200,000, its operating costs cannot be more than 58% of its total budget. That is not feasible in all cases. For some organizations, operating costs can go from 40% to 70%, perhaps as high as 80%. The government used an average to arrive at the figure of 58%.