I just have a couple of points.
Without getting political, I know that in past years $25 billion was taken from the Canada social transfer. Of course, infrastructure suffers, but most importantly, the most vulnerable would probably take the first hit when that happens. I know we talked about some increases to the Canada social transfer--particularly a 40% increase for post-secondary education, which is significant.
Having said all of that, the thing I get is that a lot of organizations spend a lot of time searching for grants, preparing grants. You see that those who are good grant preparers seem to succeed, and those who aren't, don't, perhaps to the same degree. What you find is a lot of energy going in that direction. Part of that is because we want to be accountable for tax dollars. But my sense is that maybe we've gone too far in a certain direction and we're causing groups who have been there for years and years, doing good work, to try to survive by going through various kinds of grants. When you look at the formulas and you look at the application forms, you almost have to hire somebody to do that.
So I hear you on that, and I don't like what I see, but the question is, how do you fix that? How do we deal with that? Let's forget about more money. It's how you allocate what we have appropriately and how you make it so that people know they're going to survive and can operate for years down the road and don't have to go through this continuous application process.
Do either one of you want to tackle that one? Suggestions? Concrete proposals?