I'll explain to you how that works in practice. A collaboration agreement exists between the four Atlantic provinces and us. Let's take New Brunswick, for example. Every year, the community and the department warn that programming or project applications must be submitted before a given date. The Department of Canadian Heritage receives the applications and analyzes them. It does the administrative work, not the community. It's really the Department of Canadian Heritage that does the administrative support work for the recommendation committee.
The rest is shared. Each community determined how it wanted its recommendation committee. Often it's the people who are not at all associated with the organizations who receive funding, to keep a certain distance. So it's the wise ones, if you will, who are selected by the community and to whom responsibility is delegated for conducting an initial evaluation/assessment of the amounts that could be allocated to such and such an organization, to such and such a project.
Then it's submitted to the Department of Canadian Heritage, which examines the file. Honestly, few changes are made to the recommendations. That's subsequently recommended to the minister, and she makes the final decision as to the amounts of money that the organizations will receive.
The community is thus a participant in this process.