Historically, for Genome Canada, there have been lump-sum payments, recorded in the in-year—and that's 2009-10 for the 2010 budget. The advantage of upfront, lump-sum payments is that they allow the foundation to have the security of knowing that the funds are there for a number of years for them to draw down. That helps them lever funds from other partners, because there is security that the funding will in fact be there.
On May 5th, 2010. See this statement in context.