Thank you for your question.
I'll provide an initial response and then hand over to Sylvain Groulx, our director general, so he can supplement it with more technical details.
First, young people spend about five or six years in the youth network, since most of them get involved around the age of 14. Then we start to see them drop out. Youths get involved in various ways, at the postsecondary level, in their workplace and in their community. So every four years, and even at every event, we see quite a significant turnover of young people.
The objective of each of the initiatives of the federation and its members is to have a considerable influence over young people to encourage them subsequently to get involved in their community. The best example of success is when a young person leaves the federation and joins the ranks of an adult organization such as the AFO or an organization in a particular sector.
Multi-year projects enable us to do that better. They enable us to extend the development of a project and to involve young people over the longer term. The need for innovation is felt to a lesser degree. If the initiative is good, concrete and yields good results, it will still be appropriate in four years. It will have to be updated based on new technologies and so on. It will still be relevant in four years because young people will be experiencing it for the first time. So that need is a bit different.
As for funding, I'm going to let Mr. Groulx answer.