In our current proposal to ACOA and the other agencies, we have proposed a total of approximately $1.9 million a year. We've secured funding of over $400,000 from the Atlantic provinces. We also have institutional support through some overhead reductions through the academic community; we project about $171,000. That support is there. What we don't have is the million dollars asked of ACOA as well as a $300,000 request to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. That's a $1.3 million federal request.
I should mention as well that we had proposed a five-year mandate for the centre. We have struggled over the last couple of years. We've had short-term funding arrangements. Unfortunately, I've had to become a lobbyist in many ways. I'm spending too much of my time on this--unsuccessfully, right now, unfortunately.
You mentioned briefly some of the work and changes in opinion in Quebec on certain issues. Perhaps we could get some of those individuals to give us a hand, because we're certainly having some challenges from the advocacy standpoint.