In my experience with Employment and Social Development Canada’s administration in particular, formerly HRSDC, my feeling is that they just do not have the management capacity. I will give you two examples: RDEE and RESDAC. The department is not able to manage all kinds of projects itself, and it delegates the entire management to national community organizations.
So, the department found this on its hands. It wanted to call for tenders to improve things in the areas of literacy and essential skills. But it was not able to follow through.
My feeling is that, in terms of managing this money, there is a huge capacity problem in that department.