Several agreements were reached with the federal government, but the financial mechanisms and forms are different in a number of cases. In fact, there are 26 different forms. It is a bit strange to think that one department can provide us with funds every month while another makes us wait five or six months.
Perhaps it would be easier to adopt a mechanism by which funds would be made available at the start of the year. I am always told not to worry, and that the money is in the appropriations. For example, after listening to last year's throne speech, we were very pleased to learn, regarding our agreements, that additional money would be put into the support fund.
The announcement was made in February. At the end of the summer, during the holidays, we received a letter calling on us to undertake projects. The letter was sent out in August, during the Yukon summer. We were given until September 26 to submit agreements. In other words, we had four weeks to draft those agreements. At the end of February, we received the official document announcing that some projects had been accepted, but I had yet to receive the agreements at my office. That is a concrete example of things that occur year after year.