Thank you, MP Epp. It's good to see you.
What I can say about that grant is it has been in place for decades, actually, through different governments of Canada. It's a key part of Canada's commitment to the Food Assistance Convention. It's $25 million a year.
We had a grant of between 2021 and 2024. It's used for humanitarian food assistance at IPC level 3 and above, which is for critically acute food needs and above around the world. That grant expired on March 31. We had spent a year before then renegotiating with Global Affairs Canada very collaboratively and very much in partnership. We had an external evaluation and it has done very well, so we've agreed on all the parameters of that grant. I believe it has been forwarded to the minister for approval. It was forwarded in October, I believe.
In the meantime, the old grant has expired. We have ongoing and essential programs in places like Syria, Lebanon and Somalia. We're currently using our own resources while waiting for the grant to be signed. We're sure it will be signed shortly, but we would encourage that to happen soon as some of these needs are quite critical.