In CanNor, we normally have an expression of interest period where everyone applies and we work with them. Prior to that, we have staff, economic development officers, who work with the francophone communities and work with the businesses. We have conversations before that period opens up and during that period. They're in English and in French.
Then, once everyone applies for the oncoming year, we look at them and we take into account the nature of the project, the amount sought, the quality of the economic development, and also the value brought to the community or the territory: an aspect of how much that brings to the francophone community and how much it supports economic development for them.