That's not the case at the Canada Council. The Canada Council still operates on peer review. Not to beat up on FACTOR too much—I've been on their juries—but they use a three-jury process, so it's relatively opaque. At the Canada Council, at the end of the meeting the next year they release the list of peers, so you know who did you in or who was generous to you. It allows you to assess the credibility of the program and ask who was on the jury. As Mr. Angus pointed out, the three people who made the decision about this program had nothing to do with the kind of music they were determining the fate of. At the Canada Council, it's the opposite. At FACTOR it's somewhere in between.
On October 20th, 2009. See this statement in context.