Thank you.
I'd like to go back to an issue that was raised earlier. Many applications at the first round received letters saying they were 23rd out of 70, 31st out of 70, 35th out of 70, and therefore they could not get funded. What happened between the first round and the second round? Were criteria changed?
I think you mentioned that applicants just didn't know how to write out the application. I think that was one of your earlier comments: that they were confused.
There seems to be something chaotic that happened here. I've heard—and first, is it true?—that every non-profit group that received funding last year will receive funding this year. I've heard from some groups that were rejected, and then approved, and then in the same day their funding was reduced. I've heard from one group in an urban riding that had never received funding before, and yet one phone call from an MP to Service Canada resulted in the money flowing automatically.
Was it really this chaotic? That's the impression the public has, and it's the impression we have as MPs. There seemed to be utter chaos from the time these applications began to come in and the first round was refused.