Clearly, with federal-provincial agreements, the accountability must be improved. There could certainly be a debate about that.
To answer your question specifically, these are not funds transferred to the provinces. These are federal funds earmarked for education. For literacy, the situation is quite unique in terms of the division of jurisdictions. Those funds were distributed by Service Canada—formerly HRSDC and now Employment and Social Development Canada—to community organizations through the OLES, the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.
Two or three years ago, there was a national call for proposals. We never heard what happened then: who got the contract, and so on. RESDAC, another organization of which we are a member, had the previous contract. Their activities covered the entire country.