There have been no discussions with this government, other than with Minister Prentice, on how we can better the organization. We have talked about core funding, but again that's just talk. Because they talked about project funding, we can submit whatever we can for projects.
We have a core of people who are funded within the organization, but we only get $300,000. All of these projects are coming on and we're getting bigger and bigger, but the core stays the same. It affects how work is done internally and how much we can handle.
If we don't have a core that's growing with the projects, it affects the capacity and the people who are working within that core. They have to work overtime to keep up with everything that's required for the projects that are growing. So it causes a lot of internal frustration in trying to maintain it.
After Kelowna we had discussions and were told by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development that they were looking at core funding, but we haven't heard any more.