I agree with you entirely. The current economic situation results in the organizations being even more vulnerable. That is why we already have an action plan. Whether we are talking about grants or multi-year agreements, the goal is to implement more acceptable service standards.
For the person who is waiting for his or her contribution, answer or cheque, regardless, the time period may seem very long, I agree. As for the example you gave concerning a turnaround of over 12 months, according to our statistics that would happen in only 1% or 2% of cases, and it does happen that the delay is caused by the fact that the application was incomplete. Imagine the case of a cultural space or an infrastructure program. Sometimes these projects require technical soil testing to be carried out or that initial funding be contributed by another level of government. In some cases, the problem is not that we have not finished our work—