In the province of Quebec we had a special entente with the federal government. It was the interprovincial entente
for literacy.
All the money came and was distributed to the province's different literacy organizations. That was one way of being funded.
The other way we were funded was the Quebec English Literacy Alliance. It was directly funded by the old NLS. We wrote projects and got money for our projects, which were all short-term projects and could never be repeated.
Yes, it definitely did hurt us, because the Quebec English Literacy Alliance, now that they are directly funded by the NLS, are in jeopardy of being 100% cut. We do not know yet. We haven't been notified one way or the other, so we don't know. We're just living on a shoestring, hoping we will survive. The other organizations, the volunteer sector, still had funding for this year but had to cut back drastically.