Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for coming to this meeting today.
I want to go straight to the last comments that you were making, Madam Beckton. It's right to the heart of some of the things, but not all of the things, that we've been dealing with for some time now, and that is the terms for funding. You're saying that lobby organizations can in fact do that.
Despite the fact that the criteria—or the criteria that I saw and that we all saw after it was changed—clearly states that no advocacy is allowed for municipal-provincial-federal, and a number of organizations, like NAWL and others, have actually lost their funding, are you saying to me today that if I were to ask, as an NGO, for research funds, and the result of that research I would use to advocate on behalf of women to government at all levels, I would get funding?