Yes, absolutely. We're lucky enough at Women and Gender Equality to have a very great relationship through our federal-provincial-territorial forum of ministers responsible for the status of women. That FPT group was absolutely critical for us in even being able to identify shelters, sexual assault centres and organizations across the country at the onset of the pandemic.
Typically, WAGE is not the key funder of shelters across the country in terms of operating costs. It was identified as a need, so even just to be able to pull together lists of organizations across the country, we had to work with our provincial and territorial counterparts to make that happen. We have a great relationship. That work happened as quickly as possible to get the money out.
I have to say that in terms of the emergency funding, in terms of feedback from our stakeholder organizations, we probably received the most positive testimonials with respect to this pot of funding than any other. That was because of the speed at which it was disbursed through our third party organizations, because of the flexibility that was provided and because we reduced the reporting burden on the application process.
On the budget 2021 funding that was announced, I can confirm that the agreement was put in place with Quebec last summer, I believe in August. We're always working to put those agreements in place as quickly as possible. From our perspective, we have a great working relationship with the Government of Quebec and with all of the other PTs through the ministerial forum.