I think there are two elements.
One is that the shortening of the life cycle of grants has increased the cost. It generally takes upwards of a year to put together the proposal and get it through the international peer review. In some cases, the grants have shrunk in size and have been shortened in duration. You spend a year to get two years' worth of money, then you have a six-month window to report on the money, and during the project you have to report, in many of those granting programs, quarterly.
It's at the point where if you're getting funding from Genome Canada, for example, which is a major funder through the ABC competition, they have actually made it mandatory that you have a full-time, permanent manager for the project.
Now, the tri-council grants and the Ag Canada contracts and grants don't have that, but they still have the same level of requirements. It has gotten to the point that if a scholar like me, who is on five or seven grants, didn't have somebody like that, all I would do is fill in paperwork. I wouldn't do the scholarly work I'm hired to do.