We all know that money makes the world go around. If the funding is not there, the paper programming takes on another dimension. All the difficulties with regard to community development, be it for anglophone Quebeckers, francophone Canadians, groups in Quebec and majority anglophones too...
We want to identify solutions, but unfortunately, the cycle is broken. The communities have to provide more reports than big corporations receiving major federal subsidies to save a town, an industry or a company. It is not bad in and of itself, but I can tell you that the reporting requirements are not the same. It comes down to the social and human fabric of an entire country. Whether we are talking about Quebec or Canada, it is huge problem of unparalleled complexity.
I have heard that there are too many steps in the process. One solution would be to regionalize it. The process by which you provide the required information is extremely slow. Information goes back and forth internally until a solution is identified, so that it takes six months to get $15,000, and a regional summer program for youth or adults gets cancelled.
How can we decentralize and simplify this process?