Madam Chair, we make adjustments annually regarding where settlement organizations are funded. We have an annual exercise during which we look at where immigrants are settling across the country. I spoke a little bit about the formula we use. It's based on where immigrants are settling in Canada. We have notional allocations for where we're spending the money within a particular province or a particular region. Those get adjusted annually. Also, within a particular province or a particular region we look again at the same things.
Part of this is caught up in where our service provider organization contracts are. As Ms. Primeau explained, some of them are on a three-year basis. Part of our conundrum is wanting to offer stability to service provider organizations for a longer term while maintaining some flexibility for ourselves to be able to adjust the areas in which services are provided according to where immigrants are settling.
This is an annual exercise we undertake to track where those services are needed.