We had a first round of funding decisions that were taken and were communicated at the end of April and early May. As a result of that, we heard, from quite a number of organizations that had previously received funding under the summer career placement program, but who didn't have enough points to receive jobs in the first round of funding decisions, the level of concern about the impact on their services.
I think one of the successes of the Canada summer jobs program is that we see that the jobs students were being given as a result of the first round of funding decisions were longer, and the amounts that are being paid on a per job basis, therefore, are higher. That meant that fewer organizations were able to benefit, despite the fact that the budget for the not-for-profit sector was maintained, at just over $77 million.
On the basis of hearing the number of organizations that were not successful, the minister asked us to go back and do a review. When we saw the number of organizations in the not-for-profit and public sector who had benefited in the past from the summer career placement program but who were not successful under this program, the minister asked us to accelerate a second round of funding decisions with criteria.
That gets to the point asking about what kinds of criteria were in place. We did look at organizations; we targeted the second round of funding decisions to organizations that had benefited in the past in the not-for-profit and public sector—