If a food bank has issues, we're always open to hear concerns and questions. We have to be. This was not an area that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada was involved in prior to the pandemic.
We wanted to work with groups that would allow us to get as broad a reach as possible across the country, touch as many communities as possible, and make sure that we did that in a relatively efficient way. That's how we chose the larger organizations.
If there were some groups that were excluded, certainly, our goal is to learn if we missed people, but as the program went on, we were also able to push the larger organizations, if we found gaps, communities, or regions that were underserved, to work to resolve those with local food banks.