And I think that's right. What I and other members were looking for in the spring was a bit of honesty about the program. When you talk about the reallocation, the reallocation in years past was done out of existing budget from those who applied, were given students, and then decided they didn't need them. That would be one or two per riding out of existing funds.
So you've budgeted $85 million--that would be slippage--but you've spent $105 million. Nobody says you shouldn't spend $105 million. I hope, on behalf of lots of not-for-profit organizations across the country and students, that next year's program is announced well in advance of when this one was, because organizations scrambled like mad in March when, without notice, they got the new criteria and were told the criteria had changed. Some of them didn't even apply, and if they didn't apply last year and had got students before, they didn't get caught up in the second tranche of funding.
So there are some organizations in my riding, and I know in Mr. Cuzner's riding and in other members' ridings, that didn't get funding but should have got it. Will they have some reason for hope that this year's funding might be available to them?