Of course, it's never as simple as it seems. In fact, the first letter that the province sends is a heads-up. It says, “We're going to do this.” Many weeks can happen between that letter and when the province follows up with all the details. That's part of the issue.
They obviously have the analysis in hand by then—usually because the event is over. We produce what we have as well, and we have discussions with the province and the officials on exactly what it is. We have an agreed statement of facts, if you will, and then each of us has our own processes to go through in our own systems to get access to the funding, because, of course, this is a cost-shared agreement.
That's partly why it takes a long time, but also, it was not designed to be quick. I really want to make that clear. AgriRecovery was never designed to be quick, and that was a joint design. It wasn't feds imposing upon provinces or territories.
We, as a community, with my deputy minister colleagues from all the provinces and territories, are actually just starting right now to create a working group to look at exactly how that works, because it's not satisfactory for anybody, frankly, and it's highly frustrating for both sides of the table.