Both, actually. It's a bit of a conflictual situation sometimes. Our first mandate is advocacy, so we represent our agencies and the issues of our agencies to both the federal and provincial governments and to many ministries in the provincial government. We provide networking opportunities. We have conferences, newsletters, and workshops for the professional development of the people who work in the agencies, who are members of ASPECT.
We also have some provincial government contracts, because the British Columbia government was moving toward large programs with a single point of contact, where programs would be delivered throughout the province by one agency. They were moving toward large corporations like PricewaterhouseCoopers, and I was concerned that the community-based agencies would become extinct if that model continued.
So we do develop programs in response to RFPs from the provincial government. Our models are always client-focused and individually based. From time to time, we have contracts with the provincial government. They're subcontracted out through our member agencies. We only provide the administrative infrastructure.