The obvious answer is yes. I would come here and I would say that we need a lot of money, and we need it for a long time to do what we want to do, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who comes to testify before a committee who says that.
That being said, Mr. Nicholls, the $2.7 million that we see in Quebec, if we specify in Quebec; it's $12.9 million across the country, we’ve leveraged that across the country at a ratio of between three and four.... For every dollar that gets invested, we see $3 to $4 of economic impact, which represents a pretty impressive result and speaks to that economic engine piece I discussed before.
I want to tie your question to Ms. Bateman's because I think it speaks to a question of efficiency. Obviously, if we could double that, it would be wonderful, but continuity is important in enabling us as communities to be more efficient. As organizations, one of the ways we are able to achieve such tremendous results across the country, very impressive results I think you'll agree, is that we have developed and worked on our expertise as organizations. We can leverage resources, whether they be from a provincial government, a municipality, or the private sector, to complete activities and projects that are going to have meaningful results for citizens in our communities.
I think that the maintenance of it, the fact that it enables our organizations to build that essential core expertise, gives us the capacity to be very efficient. In the absence of that, if we had to work in a project environment, it would be very difficult to have that expertise and to build relationships. In our instance, this year in Quebec we've built over 250 partnerships. Those partnerships in many cases enable us to invest in projects directly. In many cases, and I gave an example in the Gaspésie, only 10% of the project is coming through federal government funding. The rest of it is from a number of different stakeholders.
Investing for a long time with as many resources as possible in the enabling fund is a terrifically successful strategy, and I think a very efficient one at the same time.