Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair. I'll speak to that, if I may.
I spoke earlier about our principles about meeting immigrants' needs and responsible funding. More and more in the way in which we distribute the settlement funding across Canada, Citizenship and Immigration has moved to a call for proposals process, which is an open and transparent process with standards that are set out ahead of time. Organizations that wish to seek that funding are given ample opportunity to make their case as to how their proposals meet immigrants' needs in the places where they are going to be living, that they're addressing programming priorities, that the organizations have strong governments and strong management accountability, and that we're getting value for money.
We really want to be satisfied in entrusting Canadian taxpayer money to service provider organizations that they can meet those kinds of tests, and that we work with them over the course of a contribution agreement—if we are entering into one with them—that we continue to monitor them both from a financial perspective and activity perspective to make sure the programming that they had said they will deliver and we know is needed is actually being delivered in the way it was set out.