As I understand it—and my colleagues from Canadian Heritage can jump in on this as well—the corporation itself or the program itself set caps on how much funding it would give to a particular case at the various stages to which the case might move: at the trial level, at the appeals level, whether or not it was an intervention. I think there was also an overall cap on the amount of money that could be allocated to a particular case.
As I understand it, this was built in to the way the corporation itself designed the program. Some of those, I guess, might have been little cases in the sense that they might not have proceeded, for example, all the way to the Supreme Court, whereas others might have used more of the funding to proceed to higher levels of appeal.