One of the problems with a government department, of course, is that any funds unspent at the end of the year lapse. That's not the case with an organization like the Canada Council. They have that flexibility if there is some delay. They can accommodate it.
For one thing, they like to rotate the program officers in the Canada Council among the field. The theatre officers have some theatre experience, and so on. They're much more closely aware of what goes on, how a theatre works, and what the problems are, like cashflow problems, for instance.
And the museums have had difficulty with this issue, certainly in Young Canada Works. These things are for summer students. If the museums don't get the grants until the end of July, and if they don't have the cash resources to pay the students, on the assumption that they'll get the grant—which is not guaranteed—most of them just don't do it. They wait.