I think it's like any other public policy-making program, where obviously the government works to accommodate those regional differences.
In our programming, of course, we look at the individual applications that are coming in. They indicate what some of the region's challenges and needs may be, so the types of programs that are being funded in one region may differ from another. For example, in one corner of New Brunswick we funded some femmes acadiennes because they had particular needs relating to the minority language group in New Brunswick. Now that may not be an issue in another part of the country.
So we're very sensitive to that, and our regional offices are very sensitive to those differences. And when we talk to groups, we also work very closely with our provincial counterparts, and that's very helpful to us because they can feed to us. Whenever we're doing grants now, we make sure we talk to our provincial counterparts to ensure that the grants and contributions we're giving are aligned with their priorities, so we're not undercutting any provincial priorities. That is very helpful. We have regular meetings with them to ask, “What are your priorities? Where are you going? How can we work together to make sure the money we're putting in actually supports your priorities as well?” And that's been very successful.