I must say that I never used “de-funded”, which isn't maybe a correct word, at any rate, other than that it was what the government, different government ministers, used. So we picked it up.
Kairos has no sense of entitlement that we should get funding. I think what the NGO community in Canada is looking for, Kairos among them--but we are not at all alone in this--is some kind of timely and substantial response to applications that is accountable to official development assistance that frames what overseas aid is about. In this case, we haven't had that. We don't know why we were de-funded, or why we didn't receive funding. We received two and a half hours' notice. There was no time to talk to the partners who are doing excellent work for human rights, for a study on climate change, or for a group of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are working to stop rape as a weapon of war. We weren't able to even let these people know that they weren't going to get any funding.
To date, there have been many different reasons put on the table as to why we've not been funded. There is, we think, a question of accountability and transparency for aid, and that concerns citizens whose money it is, and it includes the NGO community in particular.