The request to ACOA is $1 million per year. We've requested this for the next five years. If somebody comes back and says, listen, five years is not realistic, we need to look at a three-year arrangement, those are issues that you can discuss legitimately. We'd like to have some stability as a centre, because for the last five years almost now we have been going from year to year, and in some cases from month to month. It's a drain on the centre and it takes away....
We had a board meeting recently, and one of our members said, geez, we're doing great work, this is great stuff. My response was, yes, but imagine if I and some of my employees could put 100% of our focus into development work how successful we would be as an organization.
We'd like to have some stability as a centre, so the request is $1 million per year for five years from ACOA. Last year the point was made by ACOA that funding is a challenge, there's not a lot of money available right now, there are huge liens and requests--and that was a legitimate argument. Today we have a $40 billion stimulus package on the table. There's not a lot in that stimulus package specifically identified for fisheries. Other resource sectors have had a significant amount of focus. There are elements of that package that talk about resource-based economies where the fisheries certainly could apply. In our view, we would be a great catalyst for the fisheries component of that stimulus package. If there was an opportunity there, we'd obviously want to pursue that.