Perhaps the issue is to distinguish between the three types of funding. The first is capital funding, and I think what you've heard from each of us, certainly in the case of SNOLAB and NEPTUNE, is that the capital funding is in place and we're well through the building of those facilities.
The second category is the operating funding, which is the annual money that's required to cover the basic operations of the system. That's the missing piece.
The third piece is what I would term generally the experimental funding--in other words, the funding that the individual researchers or teams of researchers bring in from NSERC and other agencies internationally to then conduct the experiments on that system. There are programs in place for that funding to be drawn down.
It's that middle piece that is absolutely vital. And the rule of thumb, which I think has been validated by CFI, is that the operating funding--that core operating funding, if you'd like to keep the heat and light on in these facilities--is at about 10% of the capital. So if you've built a $100 million facility, you're looking at $10-plus million a year to support that basic operation and maintenance cost.
That's the missing piece, and without that, the rest falls apart. The capital investment comes to naught, because you can't operate the facility and the experiments can't be conducted even though the researchers could, in principle, draw down the money to conduct those experiments.