This issue is absolutely essential. The perverse effect of these applications for the Department of Canadian Heritage or other departments is that we do not have the time to diversify elsewhere.
While we're writing reports and writing applications...and I think the reports are tough, but the applications are even tougher. For example, some people haven't received their funding for this year. They haven't signed a contribution agreement and haven't received a cheque yet for their core funding for this year. The deadline for applications for project funding this year is mid-October and November 16. So we're already trying to write the application for next year.
At one point, you're into reporting and writing applications for the next year. It uses up all the time and energy that a small organization, or even a larger organization like ours, would have to do other work--i.e., to build a foundation or to figure out how to diversify the funding.