That would presuppose that the proposal is to do this with funding from the year-end. Most of these proposals couldn't be done as year-end spending. What is normally required is that a grant be given to an organization that's a third party from the government. Then this third party, or a provincial government, would undertake the spending.
As for the diversification fund, the funds would be transferred to a province. Technically, it would be possible to use projected surplus money from this year for that purpose. But for program spending such as technology partnerships, that couldn't be done as a year-end.