Our funding was from Status of Women before the changes in Status of Women had taken place. We haven't felt any impact because we're working with funding from before the changes. I'm not sure if there was a project like ours happening now whether it would be considered by Status of Women Canada, the way it's being structured now.
One thing that was very clear is that the staff person in the London regional office worked very closely with our grassroots group to help us develop the project. When we did the first research piece, they helped us develop the next phase, which was trying to take action on the research and the ideas. The third phase is the project we're doing now to address community attitudes.
I want to just point out something about the way the funding world works. Governments have ideas of what they want to do, and there's a window, and if you can get your community needs pushed through that window, you'll get some funding. If your community needs don't fit in the window of the day, or the month, or the year--whatever the flavour of the month is--you don't get funding. The only place we could get funding to do what the community wanted was through what Status of Women was offering, through which they worked with you around what communities wanted to do.
It has worked very well for us. That's why I said I regret that office isn't there, because it was a real resource. When we talk about rural communities not having resources and infrastructure, having an office like that with a person who is very knowledgeable to help the community we found very helpful. I don't know what the new reality will be like. We'll see. We have lots of work to do, and it's not going to end when this project is over. It was very valuable, and I wanted to make a point on that, just to acknowledge it.