With respect to your questions on criteria, I would say to you that with the announcement of an action plan for Status of Women Canada in 2008, in the budget process, we were very clear that we wanted to see three pillars. Since that time, the funding has been in line with those three pillars of economic security--women's security--and ending violence against women, and women in leadership roles.
The criteria haven't necessarily changed to that extent--I can explain the pillars a little bit more for you, if you want--but there's a question of what we're putting the emphasis on, what we are paying attention to.
Before I turn it over to Clare, I want to talk quickly about some of the applications that can be denied. We're not going to be able to fund every application that comes in to Status of Women Canada. I know that you're not expecting that we would. What I can tell you is that there has been a 69% increase in the number of organizations receiving funding from Status of Women Canada because of the positive changes that we have made, because of the increase in funding that we have provided to Status of Women Canada.
I don't see all of the applications that are denied. I take my officials' recommendations that they are in line with what they're supposed to be, and that they work with those people. They come up to me for my review and my approval. I go through that process line by line, discussing each one of them with them at that stage, once they've made it through their processes.