CCFI would have a relationship with DFO that does not involve financing. For the most part, the financing for CCFI came from ACOA. CCFI would have worked with DFO on specific projects. It may be that there is expertise at DFO that could be brought to bear on a project, as good as the expertise identified by CCFI. So there would be a degree of mutual collaboration. Some of the projects CCFI would have been involved in might have had sources of funding from DFO programs. They had a general working relationship. Newfoundland is a fairly small place. People who are involved in a particular area of interest would all know one another and collaborate with one another. So the relationship with DFO would be quite cordial and for the most part financially separated. They both might contribute to projects, but that would be the extent of it.
On May 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.