As I explained, it was a very brief conversation. When I asked further questions, the person who was speaking to me said, “I have no further information at this time. It has been decided that your work no longer meets CIDA priorities.” That's all I remember about it, and of course we were very anxious.
When we did receive the information from the minister, the letter said that we would of course receive a further letter from CIDA about this, which we understood would be the substantive explanation of why we were cut. It wouldn't have to be all that long, but it would have to say Kairos was cut because of this reason, not that CIDA has to make decisions on the basis of efficiency, effectiveness, and priorities.
By the way, those priority themes were introduced at the end of September, seven months after we had made our application. So if we had any indication that our application needed to conform to those themes, we could certainly have rewritten the application.