The Halifax Gateway Council is a not-for-profit organization funded by our members. To the extent that we do projects that can be funded by any of the three levels of government, we obviously are able to do that, but for the most part our work is funded by our members, because they see the commercial value in so doing.
As we were putting together our plans to go to Europe, it just happened to be how it worked out. I talk about going often and repeating what we've said, but It became obvious to us as we were in Europe that we needed to have more of a government presence with us to talk about the benefits of CETA and about the details that we don't yet have. I realize that those will come out over the years.
Because in private companies the dollars are always being assessed, it would be very helpful to have cost-sharing. It doesn't have to be 100% dollars, but even 75% dollars would help, in a fund that we could access through the Halifax Gateway Council and put together to take those companies with us to Europe with some cost-sharing in that regard, particularly as we're talking about the benefits of CETA.
It is really early stages, but when we came back, this was one of the first things we took away, without even realizing that you folks were going to be here this week looking for input. It was one of the early things we took away to look at where we might be able to up our game. To up our game takes some time and some money.