My name is Lola Antonius. I actually work with the policy and planning subcommittee of NACOSAR.
It's been my experience that NACOSAR has the ability to set its own work plan and can decide exactly how much is spent on, say, a workshop, communications, and different things like that. However, once they do that, it needs to be approved by Environment Canada. There's always been that lack of independence. That kind of answers the question you were asking earlier. Yes, NACOSAR can do this. However, it still has to be approved by Environment Canada. Once it's approved by Environment Canada, it has to go through their own bureaucratic process to get those funds available to, say, hold a meeting. And NACOSAR has recently been informed by Environment Canada that it now requires a month's notice or so before they can have a meeting.