Thank you very much for your question. The simple answer is yes, but let me tell you more.
First, for the first phase, we have relied heavily on our existing programs, including the infrastructure of our existing contribution agreements. By maximizing existing authorities, we ensured that all accountability mechanisms were maintained. Of course, this has been quite straightforward for our larger partners, such as Telefilm Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts. However, even in the case of individuals, although we accelerated the process, we kept our control and accountability framework in place to ensure that it was going to apply.
You should also know that throughout the first phase, we were dealing with partners we knew and used to check periodically. So we were able to evaluate the cost of the applications fairly accurately, because we knew their financial situation very well. However, we still wanted to make sure, with respect to the attestations, that we were aware of some of the accountability elements that we don't control, that is, whether these same organizations had accessed other government programs, to avoid overlap, as we explained earlier.
It was the same for the partners we knew a little less. We still had the attestation in place and we did some checking before issuing payments to make sure that they were existing organizations that were entitled to operate in Canada.
Given the circumstances, because we built on our existing accountability structure and added certain measures to ensure that there was no overlap, I would say to you very humbly that I am confident that we are capable of ensuring accountability down to the last detail.