There are a number of ways. It would be ridiculous if we all thought that you could stop funding the UN. Obviously that doesn't work. If you cap the amount that you are giving to the UN and the big systems, cap the amount that goes to large organizations, and introduce, let's say, that 1% for a stockpiles program that I talked about, just so we can control the amount of money that we're putting into those stockpiles pushing out Canadian-made aid, then all of a sudden you have a mirror effect where you can say to smaller agencies on the ground that you're going to give them the right aid. If you just gave them a little bit of money and forced them to go and buy products, they're going to be at the mercy of the market.
Just look at people buying PPE. Look at our own government buying PPE in the last few months. We're at the mercy of the market, and that can go way up and way down and have an incredible impact. So, by just putting parameters in and going directly to some of the smaller and medium organizations.... You had it bang on when you launched in 2017 that small and medium organizations fund, but it was only $100 million over five years. If we just did more with it, you would be helping more of those agencies in need and you'd be avoiding that double administration.
Respectfully—I testified at another committee—we make the same mistake here in our system when we're trying to help domestically, because we programmed all the money through three really large agencies that had an admin fee, then gave another admin fee over, and it just created this double admin. We have a civil service. They're professional, they're competent, and there's no reason that they cannot be assessing and evaluating those smaller agencies and getting the money directly to them.
I encourage you. There are so many small agencies here in Canada, and I think I'm the only one speaking to you who is not funded by the government. Again, you have to talk to these other agencies. They have so much knowledge, and it will do so much good to help push Canadian dollars into where they're needed most.